《Bald Monk in the City》 Chapter 1：Bald Monk "Connection to (Will be shortened to Integrated Network) success, checking version details..." "Due to referrer demands, Integrated Network version set as: Rise of Short Life Species'' Counteroffensive Bloodline." A hundred years to an elf are just their carefree childhood days; to an ancient dragon, it is a period of slumber within a gold coin ocean; to deities, it is just that short moment when they are hesitating on whether to place a chess piece on the board; but to humans, it is one cycle from life to death. A hundred years, to someone in an Advanced Magic Plane, it is their goal for working hard; to those in the Intermediate Magic PLane, it is an arduous journey; to those in the Low Magic Plane, it is the journey to the skies that are so out of reach; to those of the Death Magic Plane, it only exists in the Garden of Eden of one''s fantasies. So, how interesting would the story be of a human from the Death Magic Plane who obtains the special nature of the Son of Slaughter, who is able to enter the Integrated Network and adventure freely... The details of the version are as follows: Rise of Short Life Species'' Counteroffensive Bloodline 1. Dungeons and exchanging of this universe''s items are unlocked. 2. Locking stat buffing ability, unlocking bloodline strengthening function. 3. Locking main quests and forced quests. ... "Due to referrer demands, player class set as: Monk." "Due to referrer demands, player has obtained permanent appearance: Bald head." "You have obtained a skill set by the referrer: Bald Head Explosive Strike." Player information is as follows: Name: Yi Qiu Class: Monk (LV1) class has been locked, lowest level cannot fall below level 1. Life value: 70% (Life value determines health, stamina. When it is below 10%, the person is weak and has no strength. When it is less than 5%, the person will be in shock, when it drops to 0%, the person will be dead.) Ki: 5/5 (Ki is the source of a Monk''s power. When one uses Monk skills, one has to consume Ki.) Strength: 10 (Power determines the strength of muscles and one''s physical body.) Agility: 10 (Agility decides reaction and thinking speed, hand-eye coordination and balance.) Physique: 9 (Physique determines Life value and resistance.) Intelligence: 10 (Intelligence determines one''s learning and inferring ability.) Charm: 9 (Charm decides one''s charisma, persuasion, personal attraction, leadership ability and external attraction.) Senses: 12 (Senses decide one''s mental strength, judgment, sensory ability and intuition.) Bloodline Ability: Prayer (Rare): Ignite the ancient special power that is hiding in your bloodline, receiving the ability to affect fate. Effect: In the next 10 minutes, you will obtain 2 lucky fluctuations every minute. Once the prayer effect ends, you won''t be able to use it for the next 7 days, if not, you might die. Class skills: Lv1 Flurry of Blows (Common): When one is empty-handed, after launching an attack, you can consume Ki to launch an extra attack. The strength of this extra attack is in direct correlation with the consumed Ki amount, but it cannot exceed your strongest strike. Lv1 Unarmed Attack (Common): All your unarmed attacks will obtain 10% damage buff, including but not limited to: Fists, elbow and legs. Condition: Bald Head Explosive Strike (Rare): When one is bald, it is easier for you to deal critical hits to your enemy. Effect: Critical rate increased by 5% Overall Evaluation: Challenge level 1 ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Yi Qiu sat on the park bench, quietly smoking. He looked like a person who had no more motivation in life. The warm winter sunlight shone on his bright bald head, it was really eye-catching, causing people to turn their heads when they passed by. Life has many magnificent turning points but humans often don''t notice it when they are in the moment, their lives no different from any other day. Yi Qiu certainly faced his greatest turning point in life but regretfully, he didn''t notice it. "Coach, I want to be a Wizard!" Yi Qiu exhaled, his mouth was filled with the bitter taste of the cigarette. A terrible thing happened. A day ago, Yi Qiu posted the goal he earned online, this could be considered his job. After graduating from university, he had already spent half a year farming for in-game gold. To Yi Qiu, the small income from farming gold along with the government subsidies for the earthquake disaster region''s underprivileged people was already enough for him to maintain his simple life. After completing his tasks, Yi Qiu started to read the forums. For people like Yi Qiu who were total nerds who liked to stay at home, the forums were places where they had the most interaction with the world. Rotten Apple Playground Forum was one of the forums that Yi Qiu visited a lot. Everyone discussed the rules of Dungeons and Dragons to come up with many unique and out of the box ideas. Yi Qiu noticed a very interesting topic: If you can have the ability of any DND class, what would you choose? Most of the people chose wizards, after all it was the strongest class in DND and they would be able to survive in any map. Yi Qiu felt that although the answer was one he agreed with, it was too obvious and he didn''t consider it to be an interesting answer. Toward these kinds of topics, the interesting reply was the correct reply. Thus, Yi Qiu replied in the thread: Thus Yi Qiu really became a Monk... This is a sad story... What was even worse was to follow. After Yi Qiu obtained the Monk ability, a skull would appear when he closed his eyes. The moment Yi Qiu focused on this blueprint that was similar to Baldur''s Gate... When he focused his eyes on the skull, several selections would appear: 1. Personal Interface 2. Dungeon 3. Inventory 4. Equipment and skill books 5. Item exchange 6. Duoyuan Universe Exchange The only thing that Yi Qiu could open was the personal interface and dungeon. When he focused on the personal interface, a book would open up. He would see his stats and there would be around 20 pages at the beginning of the book that he was unable to flip to. As he flipped backwards, a quest would appear: First Blood (White Quest): Difficulty: Easy Quest description: Pass a solo random dungeon. Quest reward: Unlock other functions. Ps: This is the only main quest chain of this version, it exists to reject those people who have lost courage. Yi Qiu focused on the dungeon and there was only once choice: Solo random dungeon (Difficulty: Easy) after passing the simple dungeon, one can unlock other challenges. Attention: Solo random dungeon challenge and character level is linked. Yi Qiu started his first dungeon experience. In less than 5 minutes, a brown-toothed boar flipped him with its fangs. Reality showed that the wizard was the best choice. When you face an aggressive wild boar that is even taller than you with your bare hands, you will know that classes that fight hand to hand aren''t suitable for the most good-natured and timid modern-day person. When he thought about the wild boar, Yi Qiu sulked in his own sadness. There were many things in life that one could not choose like height, looks, and bald head... Chapter 2：Not DND But DNF The sun had already set in the west and the people on the streets started to get busy. Yi Qiu tossed the last cigarette butt. A full day of looking at long legs made him feel better. As for death, Yi Qiu had faced it before. In that distant grey memory, being buried in ruins to slowly wait for death, he had already faced the most terrifying enemy in life. But being killed by a wild boar really wasn''t a happy memory. One didn''t enter the dungeon with one''s physical body, it was more of a projection. Thus, death would just be a painful memory as well as the sense of powerlessness and weakness that came from the soul. This weakness of the soul would last for 24 hours and one couldn''t enter the dungeon when one was in such a state. Calculating the time, his package was nearly here. Yi Qiu was prepared to go home. Yi Qiu stayed in City C, a normal second string city in the south. His mother was teaching in a university in this city when she was alive and the university gave her a house. When his parents both died in an earthquake and his hometown turned into rubble, this 30 square meter house became his final home. City C Normal University, the best teachers'' college in City C, of course, it didn''t mean much when ranked in the entire country. Due to City C''s city zoning, it was split into north and south school compounds. The south was more prosperous while the north was pretty much a suburb. The place where Yi Qiu stayed was near to the north. "Peng!" Yi Qiu tossed the heavy package on the ground and didn''t care about it for the time being. In the package was 10 kg of quicklime and a few bottles of pepper spray. It was a large test for Yi Qiu to shift this heavy box up 4 floors with his 9 points in Physique. The building that Yi Qiu stayed in was built a long time ago and it had close to 10 years of history now. Thus, it didn''t have an elevator. After the loss yesterday, Yi Qiu had calmed down from all the emotions of his fortuitous encounter. He was just a normal person, he wasn''t a special force member or a technical expert. A normal person like him, even if he had level 1 Monk skills, he couldn''t defeat a mature wild boar. But a living being couldn''t be a coward, after thinking for a while and with the help from many people on the internet, Yi Qiu bought some quicklime and pepper spray. Actually, Taobao had many weapons that weren''t sealed off but they were too expensive for him. He did have a lucky break, but in his current situation he still had to eat and live frugally. This was why Yi Qiu didn''t plan to use his savings, although he didn''t have much anyway... He opened the quicklime, using one-time-use plastic bags to package them. This was an ancient strategy that originated a long time ago. From heroes to thieves, from the cold weapons era to the thermal weapon era, quicklime was prevalent in the illegal weapons arsenal of the common people. That was until chili water replaced it in modern times. Chili water aka pepper spray. Yi Qiu felt that he could make it himself too but he was afraid it wouldn''t be reliable so he just bought it off the internet. The top-selling pepper sprays'' key selling point was that it was only for defense, so it wouldn''t hurt people. It was said that one would recover after an hour. This was understandable since after all perverts had rights, but the wild boar in the dungeon didn''t. This was why Yi Qiu bought quicklime just in case, a two-layer insurance policy. Of course he wouldn''t be able to kill the wild boar with these two items, at most he would just blind it. Yi Qiu''s main damage method was a pack of javelins. Although they might not be stronger than the vegetable knife yesterday, they were still good. Just thinking about how he entered the dungeon yesterday with just a vegetable knife, Yi Qiu felt that he was really courageous. ... He closed his eyes and the skull with a marking that looked like Baldur''s Gate appeared from the darkness. Yi Qiu opened the dungeon, the weakness timer had ended. After calming himself down, Yi Qiu chose to enter. The entire world started to spin about crazily! A short while later Yi Qiu fainted... Dungeon: Pumpkin Field that a wild boar ravaged Dungeon difficulty: Easy Dungeon completion demands: Kill the Brown Tooth Boar that ravages the pumpkin field "Hu" when he opened his eyes Yi Qiu noticed that he had arrived in a giant farmland. The pumpkins in the farmland were mostly chewed on by the Boar and the scent of pumpkins was all in the air. Yi Qiu took a look at his equipment: 15 bags of quicklime, 2 bottles of pepper spray and 5 javelins all laid in an orderly manner in his bag. Yi Qiu took out a pepper spray and placed it in his right hand. He then wore protective glasses and carried a pack of quicklime in his left hand. He followed the tracks of the wild boar and not long later he noticed that it was eating. It was obvious that the thick pumpkin smell in the field threw the boar''s sense of smell off. However, when Yi Qiu was 100 meters away, the wild boar still noticed Yi Qiu. It then charged towards Yi Qiu aggressively. When a wild boar that is even taller than you charges toward you so aggressively, you need great courage and experience to be able to react. Last night, Yi Qiu didn''t react in time and was pounced on and killed by the wild boar. Yi Qiu gripped the pepper spray tightly in his hands. He felt that his heart was beating really quickly like it was about to jump out of his chest. However, he still managed to force himself to aim the pepper spray at the wild boar. "Come on! Let''s see who dies first!" When the wild boar entered the range of the pepper spray, Yi Qiu viciously pressed down onto it! "Qi" The maximum caliber pepper spray shot out a mist of unknown taste. When the wild boar charged in, it gave out a tragic cry: "Ao!" Chili water invaded its weak eyes. The pain that it brought was incomparable and tears spurted out uncontrollably! Yi Qiu dodged the wild boar''s crazy and blind charge, tossing a packet of quicklime over at the same time. "Ang!" He was not that accurate but the front half of the wild boar was pretty much covered in quicklime. The totally blind wild boar went mad but it was still unable to see where Yi Qiu was. It could only instinctively charge in random directions, consuming its own stamina. Yi Qiu didn''t dare to get close. The moment the 2 meter tall wild boar went mad, the scene was just terrifying. The wild boar got tired quickly. The pain in its eyes forced it to push against the dirt, trying to use this method to lessen the pain. At this moment, it couldn''t be bothered with Yi Qiu anymore. Thus Yi Qiu took out a javelin and carefully got close to the wild boar. "Pu" Yi Qiu stopped roughly 10 meters away from the wild boar. Yi Qiu used his full strength to toss it toward the butt of the boar! No matter what animal, the ass was the most lethal weakness. When this 2-meter long javelin pierced the boar''s body, it gave out a loud and shocking cry: "Ang ang ang!" Yi Qiu retreated after tossing the javelin. He stopped when he was a full 100 meters away. "Phew" Yi Qiu sat on the ground and panted. He watched as the wild boar activated its final charge. Yi Qiu rubbed his head and felt a little fortunate. The last bit of strength had exceeded the limits of his body, causing his Life value to drop to 50%. "Who says that Monks can''t use quicklime. Those DNF fighters all use it so well." "This isn''t DND, but it is really like DNF." Chapter 3：Good Chinese Tradition "You have slain Brown Tooth Boar, you have obtained 15 experience points." "Brown Tooth Boar has been recorded in your adventure manual." "Dungeon completion requirements reached, tabulating results." "The evaluation of your results is clear: one example of a successful adventure." "You have obtained 100 Experience Points and 100 Integrated Network Coins." "You have obtained a basic reward of 50 Experience Points." "You have obtained a total of: 150 Experience Points and 100 Integrated Network Coins." "First Blood Quest completed, unlocking other functions." ... Numerous notifications flooded his retinas. Yi Qiu touched his bald head, he didn''t think he felt dazzled, instead he felt a little giddy. One of the notifications mentioned that this dungeon would rest after 7 days and during this period he could explore this place freely. Thinking about it, Yi Qiu didn''t hurry out of the dungeon. Instead, he walked toward where the boar dashed. After walking for roughly 1,000 meters, Yi Qiu found the boar laying in a pool of blood. He then noticed a normal looking wooden box floating above the corpse of the boar. "I was thinking how could a boss not drop any equipment?" Yi Qiu tried to pick up the box but the only thing he grabbed was air as the box disappeared right away. "You have obtained an Old Treasure Chest from the Brown Tooth Boar." Looking at this notification on his retina, Yi Qiu started to judge this wild boar which was his first kill: Brown ugly fangs faced the sky, its face covered with dirt and pumpkin juice, its brown skin was covered in needle-like fur. Its huge body looked like a small vehicle, even if it was dead it looked very threatening. Yi Qiu thought about it. He closed his eyes and chose to exit the dungeon. He felt the world around him twist and turn as he returned to his room. After opening his bag, he noticed that there was one less bottle of pepper spray and quicklime. Yi Qiu had a guess, that the things he brought into the dungeon couldn''t be brought back. That was because when he exited the dungeon, his hand was still carrying that bottle of pepper spray. However, he wasn''t in a rush to come to a conclusion. Yi Qiu tossed his bag to the side, shaking out his sore arms as he entered the kitchen. Yesterday''s adventure caused him to lose the vegetable knife that he always used but he still had his butcher knife. With his strength, he could use a butcher knife. But his physique was not good enough and he would be out of strength after slashing once or twice which was why he brought the vegetable knife. Holding the butcher knife, Yi Qiu closed his eyes and chose to enter the dungeon. The ugly looking fangs of the Brown Tooth Boar entered his eyes. Yi Qiu flicked the butcher knife in his hands. The Chinese culinary tradition made Yi Qiu felt like not eating this huge boar and just throwing it away would be a huge waste. Boars and normal pigs had a similar structure. Moreover, with the size of this boar, once Yi Qiu sliced the tenderloin within, he would have enough food for a very long time. "Ka", the butcher knife made of stainless steel sliced into the back of the boar and gave out a low and heavy sound. It was a little difficult to enter the meat, the brown skin underneath the layer of fur was really tough. He spent a long time before he was able to slice off a piece of tenderloin. He weighed it in his hands and estimated that it was around a few dozen kilograms. This was just a large portion of the Brown Tooth Boar but Yi Qiu was already out of Ki to cut more out. These few dozen kilograms were enough for him to eat for a long time. ... "Ci" the wild boar meat rolled around in the boiling water, the scent of pork mixed with star anise and cinnamon wafted into the air. Yi Qiu sat in the living room and tabulated his gains. First was experience, a total of 165 points. He needed 1000 to raise his Monk level. If the future dungeons were like this, he would need a total of 7 weeks to level up. As for the 100 Integrated Network coins, Yi Qiu opened the newly unlocked Item Exchange and realized that it was quite valuable. Although it couldn''t be compared to USD, it was better than Vietnamese Dong. The cheapest level 1 weapon was around 10 Integrated Network Coins. Apart from those were a dazzling variety of cultivation techniques and other random things. Yi Qiu took a rough look and realized that the things sold here were really cool. From the Taoist Inner Pellet Cultivation from the East, Metallurgy in the West, there was the majestic righteous technique Nine Yang God Technique, and also weird and unorthodox techniques like the Second Son Technique. There was also Approaching Nauru from Azeroth and Varolan''s Classic Rune Technique. There was an overall large variety of them, many that Yi Qiu had never heard of before. From the introduction, these things were born from the consciousness of the earth, produced by the minds of numerous humans. When one selected to exchange for a secret technique or an item, the price wasn''t fixed. Normally there would be a lowest price and above that one can choose the number you would like to exchange for. The stats of the secret technique and items would depend on how many Integrated Network Coins you spent. In short, if you didn''t spend money, then how would you become strong? The secret techniques that one exchanged for couldn''t be advanced through experience but through cultivation, helping to add to one''s Class skills. This meant that Yi Qiu could throw fireballs with his bald head, but just thinking about it he felt that it didn''t make sense. With his small bit of intelligence, it would be tough for him to even learn it. The technique exchange included teaching and learning but as for the specific cultivation, it still depended on oneself. For example, if one were to cultivate Second Son Technique, you have to first exchange for it and the secret technique will then be directly uploaded into your brain. Once the exchange is completed, you will clearly understand each step and detail of the technique, like knowing how many sacrifices needed and what you have to do, but that doesn''t mean you have the ability of the Second Son Technique. You still need to complete the rituals one by one to obtain that strength. Yi Qiu waited for the pork to be cooked while thinking about what technique to exchange for. He didn''t consider exchanging for weapons because even if he had some guns, he didn''t have the strength or skill to use it. Moreover, guns were really expensive, one needed hundreds of Integrated Network Coins. The cheapest handgun bullet was 1 Integrated Network coin. Thus, strengthing his own body was the key. Thinking about it, Yi Qiu decided to ask about it online. He opened his laptop and entered the Rotten Apple Playground that he frequented. He then typed "What cultivation technique should modern-day people train in?". He thought about it and added in the conditions, "Cultivation technique can come from games, novels etc." Not long after he posted it, someone replied. As one of the biggest game forums in the Chinese world, Rotten Apple Playground had high activity. "What type of body qualities are you referring to?" Yi Qiu thought about it and felt that his question had the possibility of going in the wrong direction but he still replied, "Faster, stronger, longer." A bunch of perverts were drawn to it. However, among them were a bunch of reliable answers. "I recommend Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique, even a fool can cultivate this. I think modern-day people probably won''t face any problems." Yi Qiu thought about it and felt that it could work. Although there wasn''t anything special about the Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique, it was just pure body strengthening, but after all the requirements were low and probably wouldn''t be expensive. The Brown Tooth Boar stewing in the kitchen was probably ready. Yi Qiu placed his laptop to the side and picked up a large piece of it. Yi Qiu sliced 500 grams of Brown Tooth Boar tenderloin into ten pieces and stewed it for a full afternoon. It wasn''t as tender as the normal pork that he ate, after all the tenderloin portion was chewier. The Brown Tooth Boar meat was fragrant. However, while he was halfway through, he suddenly thought about what would happen if the meat was poisonous. He then thought about how it was impossible to be poisonous since it tasted so good, before he happily consumed it... Chapter 4：Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique "Confirm if you are exchanging for Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique." "Confirm." "Please enter the amount of Integrated Network Coins you would like to pay, the lowest price for Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique is set at 10 Integrated Network Coins." Yi Qiu thought about it and typed in 50. "Exchange success, Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique is activated." "You have obtained Lama''s copy of Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique." "This item has been sent to your bag." Lama''s copy of Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique: Origin: The legend of Jin Yong Quality: White Description: Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique is the top protection technique within Mi Sect, split into a total of 13 layers. It has an extremely strong external palm attack, having the strength of 10 dragons and 10 elephants. Each attack has a force of 500 kilograms. But as this is Lama''s copy, it only records the first five layers. Special effect: Hand copy (As a physical copy, it doesn''t have any notes or descriptions thus you are unable to gain additional cultivation buffs and also there wouldn''t be any risk of your cultivation going wrong). Yi Qiu tried to open his inventory, 10 boxes opened at the bottom right of his retina. One of the boxes had the Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique in it while another had a box-shaped thing. Yi Qiu was stunned, instantly recalling that it was the box that the Brown Tooth Boar had dropped. Old Treasure Box from the Brown Tooth Boar: Origin: Pumpkin field ravaged by wild boars (Simple difficulty) Quality: White Related phrase of the box: Boar Description: From the acorn loved by the Brown Tooth Boar to Agamagan''s fang, all boar related items can be obtained from within... Of course, maybe you need a bit of luck, moreover, the quality of items will not exceed the quality of the box. "Will you open this old treasure box which came from the Brown Tooth Boar?" When Yi Qiu focused on the space with the old box, a selection panel appeared in his retina. "...Why does this feel more and more like a game?" Yi Qiu thought about it and didn''t choose to open it. He suddenly thought about the column in his stats that was called Bloodline Ability. From the description, there was a -2 to +2 fluctuation. Although luck couldn''t be seen on the interface, it wasn''t hard to predict using certain methods. He could use this Bloodline Ability to open the box. Although it couldn''t be considered totally overpowering, it was still semi-decent. It was already late in the night and the adrenaline secreted from the life and death battle caused Yi Qiu to feel really tired. He closed his inventory, washed up and headed to bed. ... ... ... A silent night. Morning. After a night of rest, Yi Qiu felt like he was filled with energy. As he had lost his parents when he was young, most of the elders of his family also died in that earthquake, his reliance on subsidies and help from distant relatives caused Yi Qiu to have a lack of nutrients. As such, his body was weak and he easily fell sick. Thus, Yi Qiu was used to sleeping and waking up early. Good living habits could make one healthy. After all, everyone was most afraid of falling sick in life. Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique was already used by Yi Qiu. The process was very magical, like a computer that one used for a long time but had never known that it had an internet connection or a USB port. That was because, in the place where you lived, one didn''t need such things. One day a person from the outside brought a USB disc with 12GB of space and enlightened you that a computer could be used in such a way. He helped to open a new door to a new world. It was true enlightenment. When the 5 layers of cultivation entered Yi Qiu''s mind using a method that he had never come across, some gene fragments that had already devolved started to move about, like people who couldn''t sit still and liked to fidget. That was because the body felt like it needed the tail that humans had already given up to maintain balance, so it tried to activate the primitive gene of that tail which was now only a tailbone. At this moment Yi Qiu''s brain received special stimulation. Taoists chased to be one with the heaven... What did that mean? Humans and nature had a natural connection, the appearance of spirituality. Simply put, humans used the messages of nature to adjust their own body''s frequency to resonate at the same level as nature. So what was the key step in that exchange? It was that USB port and internet connection that you had never noticed! Yi Qiu noticed these two connection points as the high-level information was flowing into him. If he wanted to cultivate, he had already completed a crucial step. Of course, not only did the Taoists have this. In Faerun Universe, it had a very famous name: Spiritual Energy! Yi Qiu felt like a magical change occured in his mind but he didn''t awaken any weird ability. His stats were as per normal. Thus, he started to cultivate Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique. Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique couldn''t be considered an advanced technique. The Item Exchange had many items related to human imagination and fantasies, be it Xiuhuan or Xuanhuan or legends, there were many more advanced techniques. However, Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique had a pro which was that it didn''t have any requirements in terms of talent, body, comprehension, heart state, etc. It didn''t need any treasure to be cultivated in a special place, even spiritual energy, demonic energy, environmental restrictions, etc. As long as one could read diagrams and follow them, even if you were stupid you will still be able to cultivate it. Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique was an external technique, a strengthening of one''s body. It wouldn''t prevent one from cultivating any other techniques in the future. Of course, the main value of it was that it was cheap. ... ... ... Yi Qiu''s house was less than 30 square meters. It was quite big for one person but it was too small if one wanted to cultivate. However, fortunately, the North School District he stayed in was good and the nearby garden was huge too. City C Normal University had its own sports facilities and normally all the students would train and exercise there in the morning. The park would be filled with nearby residents, as compared to its size there was only a small number of people. City C was really quiet in the morning, the main reason was of course that it was a suburb. The main cafeteria in the north school region was gathered near the sports facilities, a place the students called the Backstreet. The Backstreet was a place where the most people gathered, various food stalls opened from 5 in the morning to 1 at night. A large portion of students loved to head over to get a variety of food. Yi Qiu loved it too, this place had many of his life''s memories. However, as he wasn''t good with words and with there being too many people frequenting the shops, he was just a slightly familiar customer to the bosses here. This might have been related to his 9 points of Charm, after all, it was something that was really important in society. "Two baskets of xiaolongbao, I will eat it here." There were many places with xiaolongbao but the ones here had become a bit of a specialty; it was said that Mango TV had reported on it before. It was said that many celebrities loved to eat the xiaolongbao here, it was probably a cultural export of the area? Yi Qiu often ate the xiaolongbao here, it wasn''t that its taste was much better than other places or one''s clothes would explode from how delicious it was, but because this place was clean. Yi Qiu was a reckless person but no matter how reckless he was, in reality, this was nothing. Like how one could finish having hotpot and then consume delicious ice cream, however, one would definitely have a stomach ache after. Chapter 5：Energy And Prayer After eating breakfast, Yi Qiu came to a corner of the park. The usual types of green trees were planted here, with many oval-shaped fruits growing from them. However, as they couldn''t be eaten, Yi Qiu didn''t pay much attention to them. Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique was an external cultivation technique. Yi Qiu felt like he was doing Yoga when he trained in it. When he was in university, Yi Qiu practiced yoga for a period. After he graduated, there wasn''t that environment anymore when he was alone at home and became too lazy to train. Yi Qiu followed the movements displayed in the book and did many weird looking stances. The book was sent into his brain through information streams, it was a more advanced method of storage compared to one''s memory. It could let Yi Qiu accurately do all the described actions in the book. It could even allow him to adjust the postures to be a better fit based on his body''s structure. However, there were some problems with this model. For example, it didn''t consider that Yi Qiu''s body which was only physique 10 points was unable to perform some actions. Thus, after a crisp crack sound, Yi Qiu successfully twisted his back. "What can I do when I''ve twisted my back while doing morning exercise? Someone, please tell me the answer." It was already slightly cold, but the air started to turn even colder. Yi Qiu laid on the slightly wet grass, he felt cold and painful. At that moment Yi Qiu recalled in the class legacy of Monk, Ki could be used to heal. Class Legacy was something that Yi Qiu automatically obtained when he got the Monk class, among which included Monk''s origin, development, meditation cultivation as well as class advancement and loads of random things. Simply put, it was an encyclopedia regarding the Monk class. Ki was the source energy of a Monk. It was the essence of life and spirituality combined, it was the power that Monks obtained while meditating. It could let a Monk''s fist be tougher than gold, it could allow Monks to heal up. It was pretty much an all-rounded thing. 5/5 Ki was a blurred concept to Yi Qiu. that was because he didn''t know how much 1 unit of Ki was. The Monk Class Legacy didn''t have too detailed records about this. When Yi Qiu tried to activate the Ki in his body, he felt a warm current flowing in his body. It started from the heart, where it passed there was a warm sensation, but it dissipated before it even got to the waist. Ki: 0/5 Yi Qiu: ??? Although it didn''t flow to the waist, Yi Qiu felt that the pain had lessened. This healing process was actually the Mixed Energy Body skill of the monk. Yi Qiu''s Monk''s level wasn''t high enough to unlock that skill but he could still discover and use it on his own, although the effect wasn''t much. After all, when skills appeared in one''s stat interface it meant that you could instinctively use it. If one had to depend on oneself then that would be a huge waste of time and an unwise decision. Ki''s recovery speed was quite quick. When Yi Qiu used the trees to support him in the nearby chair, his Ki was full. He used his Ki once more and this time the pain was evidently much less. "It is such a con." Yi Qiu held his back and thought about it in a depressed manner. Luckily, he exchanged for the Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique. As a basic and low requirement external cultivation technique, even if problems occurred, it was at most just him spraining his waist. It would be much more problematic if internal cultivation went wrong. One must know that even in real life, there were instances of Chinese people turning into vegetables due to them training qigong. ... ... ... Yi Qiu cultivated all the way till noon. Although his stats didn''t increase, his body felt like it was evidently changing. From his own estimation, he felt that he could raise his Physique to 10 with just a bit more training. Lunch was a big piece of braised boar tenderloin. Yi Qiu started braising it in the morning before he left. When he returned after training, he added pepper, star anise, cinnamon and stewed it for a while longer. When it was time to eat, the tenderloin was really tender. Although it lacked the chewy feeling, the tenderloin had absorbed all the juice and filled his mouth with deliciousness. He also was the one who sliced the tenderloin. Big piece after big piece, it felt great just eating it. "I would like to thank Fat G for not considering Chinese temple restrictions when designing Monks, if not I would not be able to drink, see beautiful legs, what fun would there be in life?" Yi Qiu ate the delicious tenderloin while talking to himself. The Monk in DND didn''t have forced restrictions to follow. Monk''s weren''t a righteous bunch in Faerun Continent. Evil or good was just a choice to a monk, not a necessity. Yi Qiu''s Monk class came from DND. Although there were some changes due to the Integrated Network, a large portion of it was the same as DND''s Monk. After eating, Yi Qiu opened his bank app on his phone to take a look at his savings. Yi Qiu graduated in June this year. Close to half a year had passed but due to his low income, he had only earned 3,000 dollars till now. As for savings, Yi Qiu was really passive. The money he didn''t spend each month was his so-called savings. Before obtaining the Monk ability, he didn''t think about the future. He would happily eat what he wanted while spectating the extraordinary work of other people in the virtual world. However, now Yi Qiu had to consider his own savings, he had no time to earn cash from the game world. It was okay if he relied on the stipulated funds from the government but it would be a problem for him to buy weapons. Yi Qiu didn''t want to spend the precious Integrated Network Coins to buy things that real money could buy. He also had to face the fact that he was just useless in real life. In other words, how would a Monk earn money in real life? Move bricks? Yi Qiu touched his bald head. To a small fish in the bottom layer of society, there were limited ways for him to earn money. Thinking about it, he realized that there weren''t any better ideas. Yi Qiu was prepared to open the box. Old Treasure Box from the Brown Tooth Boar: Origin: Pumpkin field ravaged by wild boars (Simple difficulty) Quality: White Related phrase of the box: Boar Description: From acorn loved by the Brown Tooth Boar to Agamagan''s fang, all boar related items can be obtained from within... Of course maybe you need a bit of luck, moreover, the quality of items will not exceed the quality of the box. However, there was a step before opening it. Yi Qiu took out his phone and clicked on a mobile game called Onmyoji. He started to draw cards. "Prayer!" An invisible ripple spread out from the deaths of his veins. Yi Qiu heard an indescribable murmur, like a pair of eyes in deep sleep opening up, an ancient sleeping aura slowly appeared. "Free draw!" "Congratulations player obtained R Grade Shikigami: Shouzu" "It seems like it wasn''t a +", Yi Qiu closed the game. The prayer effect would change after 1 minute and would last for 10 minutes. Yi Qiu felt that although he didn''t know what the +1 and +2 effect would be, but getting an R Grade card definitely meant that his luck didn''t increase. "Free draw!" "Congratulations player obtained R Grade Shikigami: Yamausagi." ... "Congratulations player for obtaining SR Grade Shikigami: Ubume." After 5 minutes, Yi Qiu finally had an SR. Thinking about it, he didn''t open the box right away, choosing to draw 2 more times. "Congratulations player for obtaining SR Grade Shikigami: Enenra." "Congratulations player for obtaining SR Grade Shikigami: Kuro Mujou Another 2 SR in a row. It probably wasn''t Luck +2 but Yi Qiu was afraid that it would get lower. Thus he chose to open the box... "Ceng" as the box opened, a pale white light shot in. "Congratulations you have obtained..." Chapter 6：Heyus Blood "Congratulations, you have obtained Bloodline Material - Heyu''s Blood." Bloodline Material - Heyu''s Blood: Quality: White Origin: Shan Mountain. Keywords: Pig, bloodline, flood Bloodline Property: Power (White), Calamity (Green) Bloodline Level: 5 Description: This is a drop of fresh blood from Heyu. You can spend a certain number of Integrated Network Coins to merge with it. After merging, there is a chance for you to obtain the power or ability of Heyu. Ps: In this version you can merge Bloodlines an unlimited number of times. However, please pay attention, if you merge with Bloodlines that come into conflict, it can result in the decline of Bloodline quality. "It seems like a decent thing." Bloodline was an important component in the version of the Integrated Network that Yi Qiu was in. That was because Yi Qiu''s version didn''t allow him to use Integrated Network Coins to strengthen his stats. Apart from raising class level to obtain rare free stat points, B=loodline was the other way to complement it. One could obtain Bloodline Materials from killing monsters in dungeons and obtaining chests. From merging with the material, one would obtain abilities corresponding to the Bloodline Material. The power that the material contained not only strengthened stats, but there was also a chance to activate the various natural abilities that the body had. However, one needed 100 Integrated Network Coins to merge the Bloodline. Yi Qiu didn''t have much there so he could only shelf it. However, Yi Qiu still went ahead to check details regarding Heyu: Heyu was the name of a beast in Chinese legends. It had a human-face with a pig body and it ate humans. Its appearance was the sign of a flood. It was said that it was first seen during the start of the Qin Dynasty, The Classic of Mountains and Seas East Mountain Scripture: "200 miles in the Northeast, on Shan Mountain where there was gold and jade all around. There was a beast that looked like a pig but had the face of a human. With a yellow body and red tail, its name was Heyu. Its voice was like a baby, it was a beast that ate humans and fed on bugs and snakes. If one saw it, it meant that the world would be filled with water." Moegirlpedia was good to use, apart from a bunch of information that was blocked by the wall, a large portion of things could be found within. As one of the less famous beasts in The Classic of Mountains and Seas, that was basically all the information on Heyu. However, Yi Qiu was still really happy, after all it was one of the rare species in the book that wasn''t eaten. However, it might have been looked down upon because it tasted bad... He cleaned his utensils, taking a short afternoon nap before running to the park to cultivate. At this time, there were many more students who passed. Yi Qiu who had a shiny bald head naturally became the center of attention. However, the interest of modern-day people came and went quickly. A portion of them took pictures and then left but there was still a group of those bored aunties with nothing to do who started to talk after they bumped into one of their friends. Yi Qiu didn''t know what to do at first. He had 9 points of Charm and had never received such treatment which was why he had no experience dealing with this. However, he forced himself to be calm. After all he didn''t have a good place to cultivate. When one was poor, one had little options. He could only calm down the impulsiveness and sense of humiliation in his heart, to cultivate the Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique time and time again. Slowly he got used to it. After all there was no one he knew so he had to practice with. His classmates mostly went back home to cultivate. After all, to a large portion of people, it was best to be closer to home when they started to work in the education sector. Then... "Yi Qiu it really is you!" A clean and crisp female voice rang out, the tone was filled with an unstoppable urge to laugh. Yi Qiu suffered huge embarrassment... Yi Qiu didn''t pass her judgment... Yi Qiu was dizzy... "It is you Sister Zai Xing." Yi Qiu turned his head and then touched his bald head awkwardly. Ji Zai Xing, the yoga society president. Her height was 1.65m, around the same as Yi Qiu. Such a height was at least a -1 in Charm for guys. To girls it was a +1 and even to a special group it was a +2. She often wore clean exercising gear and she had a ponytail. Although the way she spoke had a special southern softness to it, she was a true tomboy. She was really generous and friendly, even to people like Yi Qiu who had no presence, she kept a good relationship with them. "You decided to become a monk in the end?" Ji Zai Xing looked at Yi Qiu''s bald head in an interesting manner, smiling as she asked. "You can say so, speaking of which, why did Sister Zai Xing come back to City C?" Yi Qiu looked at Ji Zai Xing. Half a year passed and this ex-president had become an elite of the work-life, her ponytail was gone and her short hair was natural and unrestrained. She wore a beige workout uniform, her style had become much more mature which was something Yi Qiu felt foreign to. However, when he looked at that familiar smile, that sense of unfamiliarity disappeared... Although her clothes changed, that smile was still the same. "I am kidding, I came back to do something. Tonight I will return to my mom''s place. You seem to be having a fulfilling life, you still have time to do yoga, I really envy you." Ji Zai Xing looked at Yi Qiu. Half a year passed and the shy Yi Qiu seemed to have gone through a huge change. She did know Yi Qiu''s situation which was why she took care of this shy and ordinary guy when she was in the club. However, her only impression toward him was: a guy who became strong after going through unfortunate circumstances. It wasn''t normal but it wasn''t rare either. Tragic things happened all the time but due to her own experiences, Ji Zai Xing treated Yi Qiu really nicely. In truth, she didn''t like to smile so much... However, this time she coincidentally bumped into Yi Qiu and his change was unexpected. She didn''t refer to his bald head but that mist that existed between his brow all year long was gone like he was injected with new life and he seemed a lot more energetic now. "What do I have to envy, I am just a lone person with no purpose." Yi Qiu touched his bald head. He could face a two-meter tall wild boar head-on but in front of a girl he really couldn''t keep cool. The two of them chatted for a while and Ji Zai Xing''s phone rang. It seemed like she had something on so after telling him to find her when he came to City S, she left in a hurry. Yi Qiu touched his bald head and continued to train in the Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique. Each person''s life was a straight line. An occasional intersection didn''t mean that they would always be together. Yi Qiu understood that. Just like that, Yi Qiu cultivated the Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique during the day and at night he would undergo the Monk''s meditation. Unknowingly, a week passed... Chapter 7：Kill the Sadistic Dog-Head Man Name: Yi Qiu Class: Monk (LV1) class has been locked, the lowest level cannot fall below level 1. Life value: 90% (Life value determines health, stamina. When it is below 10%, the person is weak and has no strength. When it is less than 5%, the person will be in shock, when it drops to 0%, the person will be dead.) Ki: 40/40 (Ki is the source of a Monk''s power when one uses Monk skills, one has to consume Ki.) Strength: 11 (Strength determines the strength of muscles and one''s physical body.) Agility: 10 (Agility decides reaction and thinking speed, hand-eye coordination and balance.) Physique: 10 (Physique determines Life value and resistance.) Intelligence: 10 (Intelligence determines one''s learning and inferring ability.) Charm: 9 (Charm decides one''s charisma, persuasion, personal attraction, leadership ability and external attraction.) Senses: 12 (Senses decide one''s mental strength, judgment, sensory ability and intuition.) Bloodline Ability: Prayer (Rare): Ignite the ancient special power that is hiding in your bloodline, receiving the ability to affect fate. Effect: In the next 10 minutes, you will obtain -2-2 lucky fluctuations every minute. Once the prayer effect ends, you wouldn''t be able to use it for the next 7 days, if not you might die. Class skills: Lv1 Flurry of Blows (Common): When one is empty-handed, after launching an attack, you can consume Ki to launch an extra attack. The strength of this extra attack is in direct correlation with the consumed Ki amount, but it cannot exceed your strongest strike. Lv1 Unarmed Attack (Common): All your unarmed attacks will obtain 10% damage buff, including but not limited to: Fists, elbow and legs. Condition: Bald Head Explosive Strike (Rare): When one is bald, it is easier for you to deal critical hits to your enemy. Effect: Critical rate increased by 5% Overall Evalutation: Challenge level 1 After a week of training, Yi Qiu''s strength and physique both increased by one point. However, he hadn''t completed the first layer of Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique. Yi Qiu estimated that if he completed the first layer, the Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique could allow his Strength and Physique to both reach 12. Each point added in the Integrated Network stats would be a 0.5 times increase from before. This meant that a person with 11 points in Strength had 0.5 times more power than someone with 10 points and someone with 12 points had 2.25 times more strength than someone with 10 points in power. Each point added was a huge change, just like before when Yi Qiu had only 9 points which was why he was weak and sickly. If he didn''t pay attention he would fall sick. However, now his physique reached 10 points, the level of a normal person. Normally speaking, if he didn''t ask to fall sick, the chances of him ending up in the hospital would be much lower. Of course, the most important thing was that there was a new dungeon. The pumpkin field dungeon had reset. Yi Qiu now had two choices. One was to open a new dungeon and the second was to challenge a different difficulty of the pumpkin field dungeon. Yi Qiu thought about it. He estimated that although his stats had increased, he still felt uneasy thinking about that Brown Tooth Boar. He had no choice before, but now with a new dungeon he could change it up, one could only last long if one lived based on what the heart wanted. Solo random dungeon (Difficulty: Easy) after passing the simple dungeon one can unlock other difficulties. Unlocked dungeon: Challenge Lv1 - Pumpkin Field ravaged by boar (Simple, Hard). After succeeding hard difficulty, one can unlock elite difficulty. Yi Qiu thought about it and still chose the simple difficulty. After all he won the previous time with much difficulty. Although one would just be weak for 24 hours when they died, it really didn''t feel good and it wasted a lot of time. The main thing was that his combat strength didn''t increase by much. 11 points of Strength was the same as a regular person who worked out. Although he had Unarmed Attack and Zephyr Successive Strikes buffing him, he probably couldn''t fight the wild boar head-on. ... ... ... Dungeon: Barren Gold Mine Challenge Level: 1 Dungeon difficulty: Easy Dungeon requirements: Kill the Sadistic Dog-Head Man Along with the familiar dizzy feeling, Yi Qiu opened his eyes and noticed that he came to a dark cave. The cave wasn''t that tall. With Yi Qiu''s height he had to bend down to move about. However, it was quite wide. If not for the broken pieces of stone around, Yi Qiu could even drive a small car in. Many candles were placed on the walls on the two sides of the cave. They were made of an unknown material, they were really thick and huge. In the air was the thick smell of candles burning. Yi Qiu took out a can of pepper spray with his left hand and then held a javelin in his right. After equipping himself, he sneakily headed deep into the cave. The requirement of this dungeon was to kill the Sadistic Dog-Head Man. Toward the Dog-Head Man, Yi Qiu''s deepest impression was that bunch of short kids with candles in Azeroth. He felt that they weren''t too hard to deal with. Although there might be a large number of them, he felt that it was less threatening that the Brown Tooth Boar. He walked for a short distance and he heard a clanging sound. He gripped the pepper spray in his hands tightly, avoiding the stone pieces on the ground as he walked toward the sound. Since candles were sporadically placed, the cave wasn''t pitch-black. The cave layout was a little complicated so Yi Qiu''s field of vision wasn''t very wide. Suddenly, the hitting sound stopped! A rustling sound got close quickly! Yi Qiu held up the pepper spray and aimed at the darkness in front of him, he couldn''t help but panic a little. In the depths of that pitch-black cave, that living being drew close quickly... Although he knew that it might just be a meter-tall Dog-Head Man, to normal people it was still a huge psychological pressure. "Si si." Light spread out from the corner in front. A weird black shadow... a long pangolin ran out... Yi Qiu: ??? Didn''t they say that it was a Dog-Head Man, why did a pangolin run out? This pangolin should be the Dog-Head Man''s coolie, on its back it was still carrying a bunch of stone. "Si." The pepper spray irritated the pangolin''s eyes. To wild animals, not only could it blind them, but it could also make them violent. Of course, this move was only suitable against beings of the same speed. If you faced cat-like things then don''t take it out. After all you had to hit their eyes with the pepper spray. However to cat species, especially those large ones, you might as well just spray it on your own body. Maybe they didn''t like spicy things and would let you off. Of course it might infuriate them and you could die an even worse death. "Si si!" The pangolin cried out and ran quickly back. What it returned with was a chaotic commotion. "Wang wang!" As the light got close, Yi Qiu heard a sharp dog-like sound. A Dog-Head Man holding a whip ran out. Behind it was a bunch of Dog-Men carrying shovels. Yi Qiu stood on the spot and didn''t move. There were still some remnants of the pepper spray mist in front of him and the ground made it tough to run. However, if he dashed in front, he would definitely suffer worse damage and if he fell, well than that would be GG. "Si." He continued to toss pepper spray and quicklime. What was worth mentioning was that Yi Qiu noticed that as long as the things he brought didn''t touch the living beings in the dungeon, he could bring them back out. This was something he noticed after he found the first vegetable knife he had lost in the pumpkin field. Speaking of which, the pumpkin field was a decent place to train in. However, the pumpkins that the Brown Tooth Boar had chewed on started to decompose and the smell was so disgusting. Yi Qiu couldn''t be bothered cleaning up the mess so he decided on training in the park instead. "Wang wang!" The Dog-Head Man hadn''t experienced such a situation before. After all, the adventurers before either held blades or swords and charged at them or threw fireballs in. This never before experienced pain caused the timid bunch of them to scream and scatter. But, what surprised Yi Qiu was that the Dog-Head Man holding the whip bore the pain, closed his eyes and charged over! "Pu" The javelin stabbed into the Dog-Head Man that charged over based on solely his hearing sense, but before Yi Qiu was able to pull out, he whipped Yi Qiu! "Si!" Although the whip didn''t hurt much, the intense pain made Yi Qiu suck in a deep cold breath. Yi Qiu tugged at the javelin but because it was stuck in bone, he was unable to pull it out. Yi Qiu tossed it away and headed forward with his bare hands! Adrenaline was pumping in his veins! Yi Qiu clenched his fists, his right hand smacking into the left face of the Dog-Head Man! 11 points of Strength was an unblockable amount to the Dog-Head Man as it pretty much flew backward! But at that moment, Yi Qiu''s left hand smacked into the right of the Dog-head Man''s face after being buffed by Ki with a speed that the naked eye couldn''t catch. This fist was much heavier than before as the Dog-Head Man flew from the impact! It smacked onto the wall of the cave. With a "dong" sound, it rebounded onto the ground. The candle on its head was squeezed into a pile of mess by the wall and as for the whip, who knew where it flew to. Yi Qiu took out a javelin and then stabbed it into the Dog-Head Man''s throat! "You killed Sadistic Dog-Head Man, you obtained 15 Experience Points." "Sadistic Dog-Head Man has been recorded into your Adventure Manual." Chapter 8：Clarity Dungeon requirements have been reached, tabulating results." "Your performance has been evaluated as: A phenomenal leader killing demonstration." "You have obtained an extra 150 Experience and 50 Integrated Network Coins from the Boss monster." "You have obtained a basic reward of 50 Experience Points." "You have obtained a total of: 200 Experience and 50 Integrated Network coins." Yi Qiu reached out and took the treasure chest that dropped from the Sadistic Dog-Head Man. He felt that it was much lighter than the last time. It seemed like the pepper spray was really suitable for dealing with slightly weaker beings like the Dog-Head Man. Each new solo dungeon would reset after 7 days. During this period he couldn''t challenge new dungeons but for dungeons that he had already cleared, he could challenge them once a day after they reset. The Dog-Head Man didn''t have any especially valuable items but what attracted Yi Qiu was the golden colored stones scattered all around the ground. It was what the pangolin had carried Yi Qiu picked one up and used the candle to give himself some light. He felt that it wasn''t a gold mine as a large portion of the ones were gold, it did look more like fool''s gold. However, Yi Qiu still picked up a few to place in his bag. After all, he didn''t understand much about stones. He was too lazy to kill the remaining Dog-Head Men that escaped and chose to leave the dungeon instead. After the familiar dizzy feeling, Yi Qiu returned to his room. The experience he had was not enough for him to level up. However, he had earned enough Integrated Network Coins to activate Heyu''s Blood. Bloodline Material - Heyu''s Blood: Quality: White Origin: Shan Mountain. Keywords: Pig, bloodline, flood Bloodline Property: Power (White), Calamity (Green) Description: This is a drop of fresh blood from Heyu. You can spend a certain amount of Integrated Network Coins to merge with it. After merging, there is a chance for you to obtain the power or ability of Heyu. ''Prayer!" The 7 day cooldown period was over. Yi Qiu opened his phone and opened the app Onmyoji and started to scroll. After 3 SRs appeared, he chose to merge with the blood. "Will you merge with the blood - Heyu''s Blood? It will consume 100 Integrated Network Coins to merge with this blood." "Yes." "Consumed 100 Integrated Network Coins, beginning merging of blood." There weren''t any intense reactions. Along with a warm feeling, Heyu''s Blood in Yi Qiu''s bag disappeared. "You have successfully merged with Heyu''s Blood, obtaining strength increase." "You have obtained strength value, 1 point of Strength increase." "You have successfully merged with Heyu''s Blood, obtaining Bloodline Ability - Clarity." Clarity (Rare): The calamity element in your blood has caused you to mutate, you can sense calamity that affects you. Effect: You can check your own Luck stat. "Not bad." Yi Qiu thought about it. This ability seemed like it could help him save some testing time. However, the most important thing was that 1 point in Strength. Now Yi Qiu''s Strength was already 12, he could openly shout that he wanted to fight 10 people, of course, the location of which would be limited to the entrance of the kindergarten. Strength 2 times that of normal people wasn''t too outstanding on earth. Out of a few billion people, there were definitely some weird freaks that made one tongue-tied. However, Yi Qiu was still quite pleased. It seemed like for him to make a comeback in life, he had to add Luck stats. However, what if it backfired...? He made use of the time when he still had the buff to check his own Luck stat. He had 11 points which he felt was decent. Then, he opened the chest that the Dog-Head Man had dropped. Sadistic Dog-Head Man''s minestone bag: Origin: Barren Gold Mine (Simple difficulty, Hard difficulty, Elite difficulty) Quality: White Related phrases: Mine item Description: From the cheapest copper ore to the expensive gold ore... You can obtain anything that the Dog-Head Man could get. However, maybe you need to be a little lucky? "Will you open the Dog-head Man''s bag?" "Yes." "You have obtained a small piece of gold ore." Small piece of gold ore: Quality: Clutter Weight: 0.675 kg Description: Nothing is eternal, even a God far above is not, but in the eyes of a merchant, one thing is eternal and that is gold! No matter where one is, gold can be used as currency. Of course, the prerequisite is that the person dealing with you can understand what coins and currency means. Yi Qiu compared the ore that he took with the gold ore he had just obtained. He felt that what he got should be something like fool''s gold. However, even after thinking about it he didn''t toss it. He could just appraise it. If it was valuable, then this Barren Gold Mine would seem much more valuable. After all, he might not get gold ore each time but the pangolin would carry a bunch of ore every time. The increase to 12 points of Strength caused Yi Qiu to feel proud. However, after thinking about it, he chose to enter the easy difficulty pumpkin field. If one could follow their heart, they should follow their heart. Now he could enter the pumpkin field every day. Currently, wasting one day would be unbearable torture for Yi Qiu. Dungeon: Pumpkin Field that a wild boar ravaged Challenge Level: 1 Dungeon difficulty: Easy Dungeon completion demands: Kill the Brown Tooth Boar that ravages the pumpkin field He faced the Brown Tooth Boar once more. This time he didn''t feel nervous. Although he still felt instinctive fear when he saw a 2-meter tall being charge at him, he was now filled with fighting intent. "Xiu." No matter how strong his body was, he had to follow the good traditions of his ancestors. To control the first wave was much needed. "Ang!" The pepper spray successfully blinded the Brown Tooth Boar. Yi Qiu dodged the crazy charge, taking a javelin and tossing! "Pu!" Although Yi Qiu wasn''t accurate, the Brown Tooth Boar was huge. Yi Qiu was not far away too which was why he successfully stuck the javelin into the boar''s hairy back. 12 points in Strength meant that the javelin tossed was easily able to pierce through the thick skin. In the end, it pierced half through! "Ang!" With such a thick thing that pierced into its body, the Brown Tooth Boar gave out a tragic and painful cry. Yi Qiu didn''t get close but just followed the Brown Tooth Boar from behind. Yi Qiu guessed that the Brown Tooth Boar had at least 15 points of Strength. Its physique wasn''t low either. Its weakness was its agility. It couldn''t turn its head when it was running and it was unable to react when its back was attacked too. As long as one dodged one wave of its attack, then it couldn''t fight back at all. Of course, the prerequisite was that one had to blind it first. Once the Brown Tooth Boar was a little tired, Yi Qiu didn''t wait for it to stop and just tossed another javelin. "Pu!" This time it wasn''t accurate, stabbing onto its fat butt, but the angle caused it to pierce through its left leg. After a loud "hong", the Brown Tooth Boar fell to the ground. Yi Qiu took out a javelin, putting the Brown Tooth Boar out of its misery. As compared to the failure of his first try and the second try when he could only sneak attack it when it was digging into the ground, this time was much smoother. "You have slain Brown Tooth Boar, you have obtained 15 Experience Points." "Dungeon completion requirements reached, tabulating results." "The evaluation of your results are clear: one example of a successful adventure." "You have obtained 100 Experience Points and 100 Integrated Network Coins." "You have obtained the basic reward of 50 Experience Points." "You have obtained a total of: 150 Experience Points and 100 Integrated Network Coins." Chapter 9：Juicy Pork Chop He had nearly finished the pork tenderloin from last time. Yi Qiu sliced off a dozen more kilograms. With his Strength increase, it made it much easier to slice. As the Prayer Skill had 7 days to cool down, Yi Qiu wanted to try opening the treasure box dropped by the Brown Tooth Boar without using the skill. "Will you open this old treasure box which came from the Brown Tooth Boar?" "Yes." "You obtained recipe: Juicy Pork Chop." Recipe: Juicy Pork Chop: Quality: White Origin: Stormwind City Description: This is a recipe that records how to cook a juicy pork chop "Will you use recipe: Juicy Pork Chop?" "Yes." "You have learned the recipe: Juicy Pork Chop." "Due to the recipe, you have automatically obtained 1 level of cooking." Juicy Pork Chop: After consuming, in the next 4 hours (Based on user''s digestion speed) you will recover large amounts (Based on life value) of Life value. "It seems delicious." Yi Qiu smacked his lips. Currently, it didn''t seem valuable, it could barely be considered a health buff. However, if it tasted good, then that was its best value. ... ... ... Just like that, Yi Qiu would cultivate the Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique till noon. He would sleep after doing a run of the pumpkin field dungeon. In the afternoon, he would continue to train Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique till night and then enter Monk''s meditation. An orderly training schedule helped pack his time. Very quickly, a week passed. Maybe because of the Strength increase, Yi Qiu''s Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique completed the first layer. However, since his Strength was already 12, it didn''t increase, but his Physique did reach 12. Name: Yi Qiu Class: Monk (LV1) class has been locked, lowest level cannot fall below level 1. Life value: 100% ((Life value determines health and stamina. When it is below 10%, the person is weak and has no strength. When it is less than 5%, the person will be in shock, when it drops to 0%, the person will be dead.) Ki: 70/70 (Ki is the source of a Monk''s power, when one uses Monk skills, one has to consume Ki.) Strength: 12 (Power determines the strength of muscles and one''s physical body.) Agility: 10 (Agility decides reaction and thinking speed, hand-eye coordination and balance.) Physique: 12 ((Physique determines Life value and resistance.) Intelligence: 10 (Intelligence determines one''s learning and inferring ability.) Charm: 9 (Charm decides one''s charisma, persuasion, personal attraction, leadership ability and external attraction.) Senses: 12 (Senses decide one''s mental strength, judgment, sensory ability and intuition.) Luck: 10 (Luck determines everything else that doesn''t have anything to do with one''s power.) Bloodline Ability: Prayer (Rare): Ignite the ancient special power that is hiding in your Bloodline, receiving the ability to affect fate. Effect: In the next 10 minutes, you will obtain -2-2 lucky fluctuations every minute. Once the prayer effect ends, you wouldn''t be able to use it for the next 7 days, if not you might die. Clarity (Rare): The calamity element in your blood has caused you to mutate, you can sense calamity that affects you. Effect: You can check your own Luck stat. Class skills: Lv1 Flurry of Blows (Common): When one is empty-handed, after launching an attack, you can consume Ki to launch an extra attack. The strength of this extra attack is in direct correlation with the consumed Ki amount, but it cannot exceed your strongest strike. Lv1 Unarmed Attack (Common): All your unarmed attacks will obtain 10% damage buff, including but not limited to: Fists, elbow and legs. Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique (Elephant): Raise strength and physique to 12. Condition: Bald Head Explosive Strike (Rare): When one is bald, it is easier for you to deal critical hits to your enemy. Effect: Critical rate increased by 5% Non-combat stats: Cooking: 21 Overall Evaluation: Challenge level 1+ He didn''t open the cases that he had gotten each day, preparing to open them at the same time once the prayer cooldown was over. Before having any Monk ability, he was just half a stay home nerd with no ambitions. However, after getting it... erm, he was still a nerd with no ambitions but the difference was that he had a choice now. Speaking of which, that recipe that came from Stormwind City was unexpectedly good. Due to his own experiences, he was great at cooking family dishes. Although he wasn''t at a restaurant''s level, he knew how to cook something that suited his taste. After all, he had cooked for himself for so many years. The juicy pork chop from the recipe filled Yi Qiu up. Yi Qiu himself loved the crispy texture but for convenience he had stewed the pork chop in the past. After all, grilling or frying was more problematic. After eating a mouth of the juicy tenderloin, Yi Qiu totally fell in love with it. The crisp outer shell wrapped around delicious juices. After one mouthful, he couldn''t help but take another. Like drugs, Yi Qiu ate them all the first time he made it. He was so full he laid on the sofa for a long time before recovering. Moreover, due to eating too much his stomach suffered a little bit. However, as the juicy pork chop could recover health, there were no problems... Today was a special day, Laba Festival. To Yi Qiu, or rather to the people of City C, the atmosphere of the festival wasn''t much. Maybe due to City C being in the south. To Yi Qiu, today was quite special because he could open the third dungeon. His experience was already at 950, soon he could level up. DND''s level was not like that of other games that were easy to level up. Each level increase was a change in nature especially to magic classes. Of course Monks weren''t too bad too. As fodder in a fight, how many of them could fly based on their own body''s strength? Yi Qiu touched his own head. Thinking about that, he was quite happy. Flight; this was one of the dreams of a human. Solo random dungeon (Difficulty: Easy) after passing the simple dungeon, one can unlock other difficulties. Unlocked dungeon: Challenge Lv1 - Pumpkin Field ravaged by boar (Simple, Hard) After succeeding hard difficulty, one can unlock elite difficulty. Challenge Lv1 - Barren Gold Mine (Simple, Hard) After succeeding hard difficulty, one can unlock elite difficulty. Thinking about it, Yi Qiu decided to try a Hard difficulty Barren Gold Mine. After all as compared to the boar, the Dog-Head Man was much easier to deal with. Barren Gold Mine: Challenge level: 1+ Dungeon difficulty: Hard Dungeon requirements: Kill the Sadistic Dog-Head Man After the familiar dizzy feeling, Yi Qiu came to the dark cave. As compared to the nervousness of last time, he was very familiar now. Although it was hard to walk due to the stone on the floor, Yi Qiu still walked toward where he killed the Sadistic Dog-Head Man in the Simple difficulty map. "Peng! Peng!" Yi Qiu picked up a stone and tossed it on the wall to draw the Dog-Head Man over. The landscape was good and he was familiar with it. Yi Qiu felt that it was not bad to fight here. What was worth mentioning was that Yi Qiu noticed that although the dungeon looked big, it wasn''t a complete world. Yi Qiu hadn''t investigated this place due to the cooldown problem, but he had walked around the pumpkin land. After half an hour he saw a light veil, he was unable to pass through it and behind it was a pitch-black void. "Wang! Wang! Wang!" The Dog-Head Man was furious that Yi Qui had invaded its territory. This was because they thought that Yi Qiu was about to steal their candles... That pangolin slave didn''t run over alone but appeared with the Sadistic Dog-Head Man. "Pa!" What surprised Yi Qiu was that the Sadistic Dog-Head Man didn''t charge over recklessly but whipped the pangolin. "Si!" The pangolin''s eyes turned red. Filled with rage, it sped up and charged toward Yi Qiu like a mad dog! Chapter 10：One Successful Martial Arts Skill Demonstration "Damn, yet another pig-like charge." Yi Qiu used the pepper spray to spray the pangolin and then dodged the pangolin''s charge. Truthfully, after clearing the pumpkin field map so many times, he was already used to dodging these brainless charges. Maybe due to the Monk''s legacy and how mystical Ki was, although there wasn''t a clear stats increase, Yi Qiu felt that he had understood ways of dodging attacks. "Peng!" The pangolin smashed heavily into the wall beside Yi Qiu, giving out an intense sound! The entire cave shook while dust and broken pieces of stone fell from the roof. "Cough." Yi Qiu wore the glasses that he had in his pocket. Although his field of sight became really bad, if he didn''t wear them, he would probably end up like the Dog-Head Man that was rubbing its eyes. The Dog-Head Men were different from other underground beings. The candle that supported their lifeforce meant that they couldn''t see in the dark. However, it was said that their sense of smell was not bad, however, the information didn''t clearly lay that out. After all, the reason why they were called Dog-Head Man was because of their dog-like sounds. After the pangolin smacked into the wall, it was pretty much paralyzed. Yi Qiu didn''t bother with it and just tossed a javelin at the Sadistic Dog-Head Man. Yi Qiu was rolling for points... Yi Qiu rolled a one... Okay, the environment in the cave was just too bad. Especially after Yi Qiu wore his glasses, it was normal that the javelin missed. After all, he was not a professional. The Sadistic Dog-Head Man didn''t get affected by it and it didn''t charge over. Instead, it stood at the spot and waited for its subordinates to recover. It was obvious that it had walked onto the evil path. Gandalf expressed disappointment toward it on behalf of all wizards. Yi Qiu didn''t dare to head over as his vision was too bad. However, it didn''t seem right to just wait just like that. He thought about it and pulled out some quicklime. The pepper spray didn''t have long enough range. Like the current situation, Yi Qiu couldn''t head forward and the range of the pepper spray wasn''t long enough which made things really awkward. As they say, ''if the east isn''t bright, the west will be bright''. At such a moment, the quicklime that was a backup resource had something to say about this. The quicklime was mixed with small bits of sand which was why its range was much greater than that of the pepper spray. "Pu!" Yi Qiu tossed out a bag of quicksilver. The Sadistic Dog-Head Man actually exploded it with a whip! The quicklime and sand went everywhere! Yi Qiu took a few steps back and when he passed the pangolin, he tossed a javelin and ended its life. "You killed pangolin, obtaining 10 Experience Points. " "Wang! Wang! Wang!" The Dog-Head Men minions expressed that their eyes were injured. The Sadistic Dog-Head Man felt that the situation wasn''t good. He waved his whip and viciously smacked those Dog-Head Men minions. "Wang! Wang! Wang! Wang! Wang!" Along with a series of rushed and painful cries, the Dog-Head Man minions charged forward toward Yi Qiu aggressively like they had all taken drugs. One of them was tripped by a stone on the ground and many of them charged by Yi Qiu''s side toward an unknown target. The aggressive charging scenes instantly became a little amusing. However, due to the large number of minions, a few of them charged in front of Yi Qiu. Yi Qiu punched out and caused these weaklings with less than 7 Strength to fly away. "You killed Dog-Head Minion, obtaining 5 Experience Points." "You killed Dog-Head Minion, obtaining 5 Experience Points." "You killed Dog-Head Minion, obtaining 5 Experience Points." The failure of the minions'' attacks forced the Sadistic Dog-Head Man to wave his whip and attack personally. Yi Qiu took out a javelin and tossed it forward. The Sadistic Dog-Head Man actually tried to use his whip to hit it away. One had to say that the Sadistic Dog-Head Man''s whip skills in the Hard difficulty mode were really good. Not only could it hit away quicklime, it could even hit the javelin that Yi Qiu tossed. However, it was obvious that due to the Dog-Head Man''s pitiful race power, it hadn''t developed toward a fighting class. Although it hit the javelin, it couldn''t deflect the momentum of the javelin that came from 12 points of Strength. The Sadistic Dog-Head Man whipped several times before he was out of energy. The javelin missed as expected. After all, this was a less than five-foot-tall Dog-Head Man and not the Brown Tooth Boar that was even taller than Yi Qiu. Grasping the opportunity that the Dog-head Man seemed exhausted, Yi Qiu charged toward the Sadistic Dog-Head Man. Due to the stone on the ground and the poor visibility, Yi Qiu had to slow down. When he got close to the Sadistic Dog-Head Man he was even whipped. "Si!" It was the same recipe and the same taste. Although the Sadistic Dog-Head Man wasn''t strong, his whips certainly hurt as they hit a small area. The Sadistic Dog-Head Man''s whip seemed to be buffed with some weird magic because when Yi Qiu was hit, apart from intense pain he also felt disoriented. However, that recovered in just a second. Finally Yi Qiu got close to the Sadistic Dog-Head Man. He grabbed its hand that held the whip and blocked its next attack. Then, he landed a vicious punch on the Sadistic Dog-Head Man''s face! The Sadistic Dog-Head Man was stunned. As Yi Qiu grabbed its hand, it didn''t fly backward. That didn''t mean that it was lucky. Yi Qiu instantly used Zephyr Successive Strikes, his left leg which had Ki injected into it accelerated beyond the speed of the naked eye and kicked viciously at the Sadistic Dog-Head Man''s chest. "Ka!" Along with the sound of internal organs cracking, the Sadistic Dog-Head Man was on the verge of death. Yi Qiu released his right hand and then kicked the Sadistic Dog-Head Man away! "You killed Sadistic Dog-Head Man, you obtained 20 Experience Points." "You obtained Sadistic Dog-Head Man''s old wooden box. " Dungeon requirements reached, tabulating results." "The evaluation of your results are clear: A successful martial arts demonstration." "You obtained an extra 450 Experience due to the monsters that you killed." "You obtained a basic reward of 100 Experience Points." "You have obtained a total of 550 Experience Points." "Although there weren''t any Integrated Network Coins, it was a surprising number of Experience Points." Yi Qiu''s eyes lit up. As compared to Integrated Network Coins, Experience Points gave him the biggest headache. He cleared dungeons for a week and didn''t reach level 2. As such, one should know how difficult it was to level up. Yi Qiu calculated. The notification said that due to the monsters he killed, he obtained 45 experience. However, that meant that he got 10 times overall! Thinking about that, Yi Qiu looked at the Dog-Head Man minions that had already disappeared and felt a little pained. Yi Qiu started to consider a few evaluation differences. Once was an adventure, the reward was 100 Experience Points and 100 Integrated Network Coins, during the Barren Gold Mine Simple difficulty he got phenomenal leader killing, the reward was 150 Experience Points and 50 Integrated Network Coins. This time, it was a successful martial arts demonstration and he didn''t get Integrated Network coins but got a full 450 experience. So what caused the few difference? In the pumpkin field dungeon, he basically relied on pepper spray and quicklime to blind and then wear down the boar. In the Easy difficulty, he chased the pangolin away and directly killed the Sadistic Dog-Head Man. In the Hard difficulty, although he blinded it, he still suffered the attacks of the pangolin and the Dog-Head Man minions before killing the Sadistic Dog-Head Man. So only by being rash would he get experience? Yi Qiu touched his bald head. Did he have to just charge in? Chapter 11：Reflex Dodge Half a month after acquiring the Monk ability, Yi Qiu could finally level up. After leaving the dungeon, Yi Qiu took out a cigarette. He touched his bald head and the joy he enjoyed was like a farmer after having a bountiful harvest. Yi Qiu felt like he probably wouldn''t be able to quit smoking in this life. Before 20, most people smoked because they''re curious or because they wanted to act cool. After 20 they smoked because they smoked. If you don''t like to smoke, then... You will definitely be able to save a lot of money (joke). "Raising Monk level requires 1,000 Experience Points, will you level?" "Yes" "Your Monk level has risen to level 2" "Due to your physique, your Life Value has increased." "You obtained a class baptism." "You have learned Reflex Dodge." Reflex Dodge (Cannot be leveled): When one is wearing light armor or no armor, you will obtain a dodge value based on your senses stat. After you dodge once due to your dodge value, the Ki in your body will form a short term shield that will let you be immune to damage based on your highest Ki value. Ps: Activating the shield will cause your Ki to be extremely active. Thus, one can see the shield formed from Reflex Dodge as zero consumption. - by Monk Class Legacy. Yi Qiu felt a warm feeling wrap over him up. A mystical change was happening in his body. An indescribable thing was entering his body, merging into his bones and muscles. He felt that he was becoming much tougher and his mind became much quicker. Many memories with regard to close combat fights appeared in his mind. But, it didn''t spread toward his long-term memory from his hippocampus like normal memories but instead flowed towards the various muscles in his body. The Ki in Yi Qiu''s body started to boil but it didn''t make him feel warm. Instead, he felt a calmness that was hard to describe, like a clear current that cleaned out the impulsiveness at the bottom of his heart. After cleaning that out, Ki rose from his body to the surface of his body, it attached to it like a thin layer. Even if a bit of dust landed on it, the Ki layer would slightly shake and that dust would flick off. When enemy attacks were about to hit Yi Qiu, an intense flow of Ki would cause the layer to quickly and hurriedly vibrate. Then through nerves, it would activate the reactions of the muscles in the body. He would instantly activate Reflex Dodge movements and thus dodge the enemy''s attack. The vibrating Ki will go from the relaxed state to one that was tightly bound together, forming a strong shield to blow the remnants of the attack. This was the Monk''s Reflex Dodge. Before Yi Qiu obtained the power of the Monk, his highest stat was his Senses, a full 12 points. As compared to raising Strength, Agility and Physique, Senses, Intelligence and Charm were much harder to raise. At least for Senses, Yi Qiu didn''t know how to raise it. Maybe certain Bloodlines could. Based on the current situation, the increase in Senses was important for Yi Qiu. As for Intelligence and Charm, as they say, ''If intelligence is not enough, senses will make up for it''. As for Charm... A charging Monk wouldn''t care, it was one of the least efficient stats. Did a bald person need Charm? It didn''t exist. After leveling up, it was the happy case chest opening time. Yi Qiu had saved up 6 Brown Tooth Boar old wooden chests. Along with the Hard difficulty Sadistic Dog-Head Man''s chest, he had a total of 7. He felt that the chests from the pumpkin field were of higher quality. The Hard difficulty Sadistic Dog-Head Man only dropped the same chest as the Simple difficulty Brown Tooth Boar. Sadistic Dog-Head Man''s old wood chest: Origin: Barren Gold Mine (Hard difficulty) Quality: White Related words: Dog-head Man, pangolin Description: Look! You discovered, the treasure of a Dog-Head Man! Maybe inside is unfinished bones or items of a rookie, but sometimes you can get something useful... so aren''t you going to try your luck? The Dog-Head Man had something to say about all this... "Prayer!" He opened his phone and clicked on the stopwatch. The moment Yi Qiu activated Prayer, within 10 minutes, his Luck jumped between 8-12 points, each change would last for 1 minute. "Luck: 9." Luck -1, next wave. "Luck: 10." Luck didn''t change, continue "Luck 9." Another -1, continue. ... At the 6th minute, he finally reached the limit of 12 points of Luck! "Will you open the old wooden chest that came from the Sadistic Dog-Head Man?" "Yes!" "Congratulations you have obtained Bloodline Material - pangolin." A pale white light shone from the box which meant that the item within was relatively high quality. There wasn''t any light when he got the recipe. However, Yi Qiu felt that the recipe was quite good for him. He wasn''t eager to see the stats, he just quickly opened the 2nd box. "Will you open the old wooden chest from Brown Tooth Boar?" "Yes!" "Congratulations you have obtained Bloodline Material - wild boar." "Will you open the old wooden chest from Brown Tooth Boar?" "Yes!" "Congratulations you have obtained..." ... Using the rare 12 Luck, Yi Qiu used his extremely fast hand speed to open all the chests in less than 30 seconds. (Pls look at tl notes) He tabulated everything, obtaining 3 Bloodline Materials, 1 wild boar, 1 pangolin and 1 wild boar princess whilst the rest were just equipment and random items. Brass Knuckle Duster: Origin: Azeroth Item level: 1 Quality: White Durability: 25/35 Attack: 1-5 Attack type: Pierce Weight: 0.5kg Description: A knuckle duster made from brass. Due to poor maintenance, it has started to rush. Ps: The attack effect you can cause is related to the power of your strikes. Only when your attack exceeds the armor of the enemy will you cause piercing damage, if not you will only cause pure striking damage. Ps: Due to version settings, the weapons and equipments from chests will largely be suitable for human classes. But, at the same time you won''t be able to sell the class weapon and equipment at the Duoyuan Universe Exchange. As for equipment that you have outgrown, you can recycle it at the item exchange. Acorn that little pigs like: Origin: Azeroth Quality: Grey Description: Little pigs love to copy their parent''s actions. Human babies learn to walk, babies of boars like to chew acorn that they can''t manage to chew... You can try to give it to a little pig to gain its trust. Ps: Grey miscellaneous item means that it is valuable for some beings but not valuable for most. You can test your luck in the Duoyuan Universe Exchange or choose to recycle it at the item exchange. ... There were also a few other miscellaneous items like Brown Tooth Boar Fang which Yi Qiu was too lazy to bother with and which he tossed into his bag. Maybe there would be a time when it was useful. Anyway, his bag was empty and when it was full, then he would just recycle the items. His main profits this time were 3 Bloodline Materials. Although their names sounded quite simple, the effects seemed good. Note 1: Background - Alone for 30 years: Waiting for a person is like waiting for the rain to stop, and this wait lasted 30 years. Effect: Your right hand''s nerve instincts have increased, Charm -1, Opposite Sex Charm Resistance -1 Chapter 12：Physique 13! Yi Qiu tried to merge with the wild boar blood and realized that it actually cost 160 Integrated Network Coins. However, he now had 700 Integrated Network Coins and he could afford it. He didn''t have much time to hesitate since he spent half of the time opening the chests. He was still left with 30 seconds of 12 Luck effect. "Will your merge with Bloodline Material - wild boar? Merging with this Bloodline will cost 160 Integrated Network Coins." "Yes." "Consumed 160 Integrated Network Coins, merging of bloodline beginning." Bloodline Material - wild boar: Quality: White Origin: Wilderness of Jiangnan Keywords: Pig, Strengthening, Bloodline Bloodline Property: Strength (White), Physique (White), Strengthening (Green) Bloodline Level: 3 PS: "Not a mutation? Let it go free!" - An unknown spirit muttered. "You successfully merged with wild boar Bloodline, as your strength had already reached 12, there is no further increase." "You have successfully merged with wild boar Bloodline, obtaining Bloodline Ability - Strengthening." "Will you merge with Bloodline Material - Wild Boar Princess? It will cost 420 Integrated Network Coins to merge with Bloodline." "Yes." Consumed 420 Integrated Network Coins, merging of Bloodline beginning." Bloodline Material - Wild Boar Princess: Quality: White Origin: Blackwill Pumpkin Field Keywords: Pig, Princess, Bloodline Bloodline Property: Strength (White), Physique (White), Charm (Green), Summon (Green) Bloodline Level: 5 PS: Princess needs to die! - Ma Stonefield "You have successfully merged Wild Boar Princess, obtaining an increase in physique." "Due to your physique, you have obtained 1 Physique point." "You have successfully merged with Wild Boar Princess, due to your Charm, you did not obtain Bloodline Ability - Summon Cavalry." Will you merge with Bloodline Material - pangolin? Merging with this Bloodline consumes 940 Integrated Network Coins." "Yes." Bloodline Material - pangolin: Quality: White Origin: Barren Gold Mine Keywords: Pangolin, Bloodline, Dig Bloodline Property: Strength (White), Dig (Green) Bloodline Level: 5 "Warning! Not enough Integrated Network Coins!" Yi Qiu, "???" As time was too rushed, Yi Qiu didn''t take a close look at the notifications that flooded the screen. The last notification about insufficient Integrated Network Coins was something he saw right away. After all, the only red warning notification out of the other white words was naturally really obvious. The Integrated Network menu was really flexible, Yi Qiu normally used it while closing his eyes and letting the menu show on his retina and used his mind to control it. One could also project it out into the air and use their hands to control it. The latter was for those brutish people whose mental focus was not strong enough. Yi Qiu thought about this when he was thinking about how to use the 1 minute of insane Luck. After all, his mental control was relatively slower, needing several seconds to pick something. If he used his right hand, it would be much quicker... Before Yi Qiu went to check how many Integrated Network Coins he had spent, a magma like heat drowned him! His muscles and flesh were tearing apart and combining. A car crash-like pain even caused green veins to pop out of his head! The high temperature within his body caused his skin to turn red. When the boiling sweat touched the cold air outside it instantly turned to mist. The rolling mist totally covered Yi Qiu. If one disregarded Yi Qiu''s vicious looking face due to the intense pain, along with that shining bald head, he did look celestial. "Damn... Damn!" Yi Qiu spat out a mouthful of burning heat and in the cold winter air, it formed a majestic white rainbow! He had never expected that it was so painful to merge 2 Bloodlines. Even in the winter, Yi Qiu''s entire body was wet and the wind that blew caused it to feel ice cold. However, Yi Qiu had 13 points in physique and he didn''t feel cold at all. He was almost drunk from how powerful his body felt. This was something he had never felt since young with his 9 physique points. This nature level evolution was something that Yi Qiu was drunk with. This gave him a higher sense of happiness than having sex or bragging in front of others. 13 physique points, as compared to his 9 points in the past, it was a full 4 times increase! It was 3 times more than normal people who had 10 physique points! According to unreliable information, normal males exercised for 20 minutes, then Yi Qiu could last for 60 mins now. Of course this was just theory. Although he had his own water cooling system, 60 minutes without foreplay was something no one could do... Males were treasure swords, females were the sheath. Toward this, the legendary Xuan Metal Sword had something it wanted to say... Name: Yi Qiu Class: Monk (LV2) class has been locked, the lowest level cannot fall below Level 1. Life value: 100% ((Life value determines health, stamina. When it is below 10%, the person is weak and has no strength. When it is less than 5%, the person will be in shock, when it drops to 0%, the person will be dead.) Ki: 70/70 (Ki is the source of a Monk''s power, when one uses Monk skills, one has to consume Ki.) Strength: 12 (Power determines the strength of muscles and one''s physical body.) Agility: 10 (Agility decides reaction and thinking speed, hand-eye coordination and balance.) Physique: 13 (Physique determines Life value and resistance.) Intelligence: 10 (Intelligence determines one''s learning and inferring ability.) Charm: 9 (Charm decides one''s charisma, persuasion, personal attraction, leadership ability and external attraction.) Senses: 12 (Senses decide one''s mental strength, judgment, sensory ability and intuition.) Luck: 10 (Luck determines everything else that doesn''t have anything to do with one''s power.) Bloodline Ability: Prayer (Rare): Ignite the ancient special power that is hiding in your Bloodline, receiving the ability to affect fate. Effect: In the next 10 minutes, you will obtain -2-2 lucky fluctuations every minute. Once the prayer effect ends, you wouldn''t be able to use it for the next 7 days, if not you might die. Clarity (Rare): The calamity element in your blood has caused you to mutate, you can sense calamity that affects you. Strengthening (Rare): Your muscle structure has mutated, causing you to be able to use your strength much more comfortably and easily. Your barehanded attacks will have an energy that causes damage that infiltrates your enemy, Effect: When in a barehanded state, your attacks will have piercing damage. When facing light armored or no armor enemies, you will obtain 0.52x of your strength value, when facing heavy armor, your attacks -20%. Effect: You can check your own Luck stat. Class skills: Lv2 Flurry of Blows (Common): When one is empty-handed, after launching an attack, you can consume Ki to launch an extra attack. The strength of this extra attack is in direct correlation with the consumed Ki amount, but it cannot exceed your strongest strike. Lv2 Unarmed Attack (Common): All your unarmed attacks will obtain 10% damage buff, including but not limited to: Fists, elbow and legs. Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique (Elephant): Raise Strength and Physique to 12. Condition: Bald Head Explosive Strike (Rare): When one is bald, it is easier for you to deal critical hits to your enemy. Effect: Critical rate increased by 5% Non-combat stats: Cooking: 21 Overall Evaluation: Challenge Level 2 Chapter 13：8 Gates Yi Qiu took off his wet clothes and tossed them into the washing machine. After rubbing his body with soap and taking a bath, he started to check his Integrated Network information. The consumption for merging Bloodlines exceeded his expectations. From 100 Integrated Network Coins to 160 Integrated Network Coins and then to 420 Integrated Network Coins. ... It really felt like he was dealing with a loan shark. He did expect there not to be an increase in stats when he merged with the boar Bloodline but he didn''t expect not getting any ability after merging with the Wild Boar Princess Blood. Even if he was lucky and obtained an ability from merging Bloodlines, it needed to have a certain property. Yi Qiu contemplated to himself, it seemed like he had to be careful in the future. As for finding a way to raise Charm? It didn''t exist. Yi Qiu touched his bald head, if he had time why not just train Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique a few more times? The unlimited merging that was mentioned was like how some games mentioned dealing 999 damage with one blade. To get so strong, one had to first pay a lot of money. Yi Qiu took out the Brass Knuckle Duster that he got from the Sadistic Dog-Head Man chest. He wore it on his hands and tried to punch and he felt that he wasn''t used to it. It was called Brass Knuckle Duster, but in truth, it was just a knuckle duster made out of brass, there was nothing magical about it. The so-called 1-5 attack was naturally not referring to those lame games where one punch would cause a 1-5 health decrease. It was based on hardness, blade angle, etc., giving an overall value. If there weren''t any special effects, Yi Qiu felt that it was better if he got weapons from real life. Be it cold weapons or firearms, it would be the case before he came into contact with magical weapons. Speaking of which, Monks didn''t need magical weapons like that of other physical classes. After all, when he reached lvl4 he would be able to inject Ki and turn his hands into magical weapons. Along with his Monk level increasing, this ability would also continue to strengthen. Speaking of which, what if one injected Ki into sponge? Yi Qiu suddenly had an idea. "Ding." A message from the bank regarding utility bills brought Yi Qiu back to his senses. Yi Qiu touched his head. He did not much savings left. Yi Qiu''s main income source before was farming for cash on some popular games as well as government help. Due to his age, this was the last year he could get help from the government. As for farming for cash, since he obtained the Monk ability he had stopped. Yi Qiu finally thought about the small piece of gold ore and that unknown ore that the pangolin dropped. Although he heard that the price of gold dropped, it was a stable currency and it wouldn''t fall much. Thank you Dog-Head Man, it allowed the only Monk on earth to not have to move bricks to survive... He carried a bag of ore, taking a bus to the gold shop. In the end, they didn''t accept it. However, one of the customers expressed that he was interested. He used the machine in the shop to do an x-ray test. The gold ore from the chest had 20 over carats of gold which the guy expressed he would buy for 5,000. As for the other ore that he got from the pangolin, they were basically yellow iron, a few of them were gold ore but there was too little gold. That person said he could help him deal with them and offered him 5,300. Yi Qiu sold it all to him, the price was nearly enough. Yi Qiu didn''t care much about money, he was happy as long as it was enough for him to live. He exited the store and it was snowing outside. The bell of the new year always welcomed the heaviest cold wind of the year. Yi Qiu wiped the snow that landed on his head. His new life had just begun... ... ... ... As it was snowing outside, Yi Qiu didn''t head to the park to practice Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique. He contemplated whether or not he should train in other things, something like Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique that didn''t need him to have extra expenses. He didn''t have any idea after thinking for half a day so he decided to stroll the Rotten Apple Playground forums. He hadn''t come on for a long time but it was still bustling. There were many trending topics, most of it was mind-blowing and really interesting. Of course, the eternal Book of Exotic Fantasy was always there. Yi Qiu drank tea and read. Very quickly he found what he wanted in the anime section. "Naruto has ended, who is your favorite character?" 1L: "Of course it is Itachi, I love his control of his brother." 2L: "106cm, no explanation." 3L: "Such a good answer." 4L: "Please sit down it is not your turn." ... "Pu." Yi Qiu spat out a mouthful of tea, as expected there were perverts everywhere. When he thought about Naruto, Yi Qiu thought about a character he loved, instantly giving him some inspiration. Yi Qiu looked at his remaining Integrated Network Coins. He had 120 Coins left. He thought about it and felt that his idea did make sense. Thus, he went to find the item he wanted to exchange for. "Are you sure you want to exchange for Eight Gates?" "Confirm." "Checking character energy compatibility." "Check complete, high compatibility, conditions are satisfied." "Checking character stats." "Check complete, character physique satisfies requirements." "Checking whether or not there is Bloodline conflict. "Check complete, character blood is compatible, conditions satisfied." "Please enter the number of Integrated Network Coins you would like to pay, the lowest exchange price is 50 Integrated Network Coins." Yi Qiu thought about it and typed in 100. "Exchange success, Eight Gates is being generated." Incomplete Eight Gates: Origin: Konoha Leaf Village Quality: White Description: This seems like a portion of a scroll, on it records the opening method and cultivation methods of the Gate of Opening, Gate of Healing and Gate of Life. Special effect: Incomplete (You can spend extra Integrated Network Coins to repair this technique, the effect of the repair will depend on how much you spend) Eight Gates''s most outstanding user in Naruto was Might Guy. He was the only character that Yi Qiu liked when he watched Naruto. A character who didn''t rely on background, on bloodline or tailed beasts, using his own passion and nearly ended up bringing an end to the series. Eight Gates''s theory was to open up the eight gates in the human body to remove all restrictions in the body and obtain explosive strength! The more gates one opened, the more powerful one got. Of course, the effects would be more serious. When one opened the eighth gate, one would definitely die. Of course, the power that one would get would also be really terrifying. Yi Qiu considered that death in the dungeon was just a period of weakness. When he faced a boss he couldn''t beat, he would just open Eight Gates and instantly kick the boss to death. Wouldn''t that feel good? Moreover the Eight Gates exchanged from the Integrated Network just required the user to have enough Physique and Senses. It didn''t have demands on one''s Technique, Energy Control, and Bloodline. The effect just raised one''s internal energy as well as one''s Strength and Agility. It was really compatible with the Monk''s combat system. "Will you use the incomplete Eight Gates?" "Yes!" ... Chapter 14：Wolf Pup Cave Gate of Opening, Gate of Healing, Gate of Life, Gate of Pain, Gate of Limit, Gate of View, Gate of Wonder, Gate of Death, the eight gates in the human body that restricted the amount of energy one''s body amassed. They protected the weak physical bodies and started to show their mysteries to Yi Qiu... However, as the Eight Gates were incomplete, Yi Qiu only obtained the methods of Gate of Opening, Gate of Healing and Gate of Life. He only knew the positions of the other gates. What was different from Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique was that Eight Gates had really strict demand on Physique and Senses. Even the first layer needed 12 Physique and 12 Senses. However, the Eight Gates didn''t need him to train everyday like the Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique needed him to. If one''s stats weren''t high enough, then one had to increase their stats. Eight Gates itself was a method, a way of opening gates. Once one knew about it, one knew about it. At most, the speed of the gate opening will increase with familiarity. Overall, the Eight Gates were decent. Although the after-effects of using it was quite huge, it was decent when used in the dungeon. Moreover, after opening the Gate of Healing, one wouldn''t have any stamina restrictions. Along with the Monk''s future speed buff, if he faced any problems in real life he would be able to run away. He closed his laptop and opened the dungeon selections. He could select to challenge a new dungeon now: Solo random dungeon (Difficulty: Easy): After passing the simple dungeon, one can unlock other difficulties. Unlocked dungeon: Challenge Level 1 - Pumpkin Field ravaged by boar (Simple, Hard). After succeeding hard difficulty, one can unlock elite difficulty. Challenge Level 1- Barren Gold Mine (Easy, Hard, Elite). Elite difficulty is the highest difficulty of this dungeon. PS: After completing the final difficulty of the dungeon, one will obtain the highest reward from the dungeon, rare drops and dungeon collectibles. Once completed, the dungeon will disappear. Yi Qiu focused on the solo random dungeon and chose to take the challenge. Although he could project it in the air and use his right hand to control, apart from times when he was opening chests, he would use his mind. That was because it looked a little silly to his hand and touch the empty space. Wolf Pup Cave: Challenge Level: 2 Difficulty: Simple Dungeon Requirements: Slay the Mother Wolf that protects the cave The familiar dizziness... When Yi Qiu opened his eyes once more he was in a desolate-looking plain. The ground was covered in withered grass and the small hills of different heights had a bunch of yellow shrubs struggling to live. In the distance, an Arbor Tree stood tall, standing out from the rest and showing off its once healthy body. However, its withered leaves and branches showed signs of its life slipping away. There was a mellow smell in the air. When wind blew across, Yi Qiu touched his head. This wasn''t good news. This wind meant that his main control method, pepper spray and quicklime had to be timed correctly. He didn''t want to feel the same pain that the Dog-Head Man and Brown Tooth Boar had experienced. "Kachi." Walking on the ground that was covered with dried leaves, it was impossible to not make noise. However, Yi Qiu was at ease as till now he still hadn''t noticed the enemy. "Aooo!" The Mother Wolf whose body was totally snow white appeared in Yi Qiu''s field of vision. It noticed Yi Qiu and then after a period of stunned silence, it gave out a high pitch howl. The howl of the wolf was pretty much the most familiar wild animal sound to a human. After all, God''s rough draft when making the wolf, the husky, was everywhere in human society. Yi Qiu didn''t understand the wolf language. Maybe he could try giving it a listen once he reached Level 17 and learned the Universal Language. However, he was roughly able to guess that she was saying something like ''kill this human and give the pups something to eat''. A Mother Wolf that was brown with streaks of black pounced out from the bushes on the hill to the side of Yi Qiu! Yi Qiu wasn''t prepared at all as his eyes were focused on that white Mother Wolf! "Kong!" The brown Mother Wolf didn''t manage to bite Yi Qiu. That was because when it was about to bite his neck, Yi Qiu seemed to have gone against gravity, dodging with a weird movement. "Hu hu..." Although he wasn''t bitten Yi Qiu was still under huge pressure. The Wolf''s mouth was just 1cm away from him, a thick smell along with the scent of death made it hard for him to breathe! If this was in the past, Yi Qiu would have been startled and unable to move, his legs would have been so soft that he couldn''t them... However, after cultivating Ki and after the class baptism, he realized that he was much tougher mentally. This was why he was able to calm down quickly. Yi Qiu stared at the brown Mother Wolf that was 100 meters away from him. If not for him using Reflex Dodge to avoid, that fellow would have made him into a meal. Yi Qiu squinted. He started to activate the Ki in his body to let it rotate around his body swiftly! Repeatedly Ki surged about swiftly in his body! Due to the restrictions of his meridians, they could only cycle endlessly in a small range! The extremely quick Ki rotation made it go out of control! His weak meridians started to feel a stabbing pain like it couldn''t take the heavy burden! Finally, when the stabbing needle-like pain that Yi Qiu was bearing was about to reach its maximum, Yi Qiu finally directly the Ki toward the weakness protection layer in the human body - Gate of Opening! "Hong!" Like someone who was stepping on both the throttle and the brakes suddenly letting go of the brakes. The Ki surged into the Gate of Opening! Instantly Yi Qiu felt like an invisible thing was being opened. It was like he was used to wearing something heavy and now that thing was taken off. A hard to describe lightness caused his pupils to constrict! "Eight Gates, First gate, Gate of Opening, open!" The first gate of Eight Gates, Gate of Opening: Opening the restrictions of the human brain, allowing one to use 100% of their body''s strength. Effect: Opening it would consume at most 10% of Life value, raising one''s Agility to 16 (Based on Physique), raising one''s Strength to 16 (Based on Physique), and brain restrictions removed. Each second would consume 1% of Life value (Based on Physique) and stops once the skill is stopped. PS: If Physique is lower than 12, forcefully opening it will directly lead to death! If Senses are below 12, human shall suffer a pain check every second, if one fails one will be in a stunned state. The length of time depends on Senses. PS: Brain restriction removal can allow you to ignore skills and try to use any bodily skill! But, please pay attention. If your base requirements are not enough, your body will still be damaged and you might even die! "Hong!" 16 Strength was 10 times more explosive and faster than normal humans! Wind blew crazily by Yi Qiu''s ear to describe its unhappiness. The heavy winter gear pressed tightly on Yi Qiu''s body, hair... Pui! Thank god for being bald. The beauty of its compatibility with aerodynamics and the smoothness to avoid friction made Yi Qiu like a tiger with wings! "Peng!" Yi Qiu punched the weak nose of the brown Mother Wolf which was totally unable to keep up with his speed. 10 times the strength of a normal human pretty much caused the Wolf''s nose to cave it. But the strong skull blocked it! The power from the Strengthening Ability was like a knife as it carved a vicious looking wound on the Mother Wolf''s head. "Aooo! Wu wu wu!" Its weak nose was pretty much smacked into meat paste. That indescribable pain caused the Mother Wolf to cry out in pain! But, Yi Qiu didn''t stop. He rotated his remaining Ki to his left leg, along with the sharp sound of the wind, his left leg viciously kicked the Brown Mother Wolf! Chapter 15：Critical Hit Just at that moment, Yi Qiu felt the muscles in his body reach an indescribable harmony! A mysterious fluctuation covered him, starting from his head and swiftly spread to his entire body! From head muscles to those in his left leg, from his stapes muscles to his quads, all his muscles were actually in unison! A small amount of power gathered together, from a thin stream to a raging river! Crit! "Peng!" Under these heavily destructive attacks, the head of the Brown Mother Wolf exploded! "You have killed the partner of the Mother Wolf, obtaining 30 Experience Points." Fresh red pieces of meat mixed with white skull bone fragments scattered in the air! It finally landed on the ground, dyeing a shocking red on the dry yellow grass. The body which had lost its head continued to fly toward the small hill from the remaining momentum! In the end, it rolled down the hill. The yellow fur was covered in random bits of grass and sticky fresh blood! "Aoo!" The white Mother Wolf gave out a hateful and sad howl. Even if Yi Qiu didn''t learn Universal Language he understood that. People of the modern world were all selfish, it was the period of survival of the fittest. Yi Qiu waved his right hand that was covered in sticky liquid. The stabbing pain in his body rushed him to quickly end the fight. Eight Gates was a sharp double-edged sword. It harmed others and himself too. He had no more time to hesitate. He clenched his fists and the sharp sound of wind rustling broke out once more! "Xiu!" The scenes all around disappeared quickly. The human eye wasn''t able to keep up with such a speed. He relied on his Senses and Agility to charge toward the white Mother Wolf. "Kong!" Without hesitating or retreating, the White Mother Wolf bared its fangs and charged at Yi Qiu! The wind was rustling furiously. The White Mother Wolf howled and in that moving white shadow it was really easy to spot a pair of hatred-filled eyes. "Pu!" Yi Qiu''s fist and the White Mother Wolf''s mouth contacted. After a less than 0.1 second delay, his fist ripped open its throat and pierced through! "You have killed Protector Mother Wolf, obtaining 30 Experience Points." Dungeon requirements reached, tabulating results. "Your evaluation in this dungeon: One dangerous adventure." "You have obtained an extra 600 Experience Points and 200 Integrated Network Coins from killing the monster." "You have obtained a base reward of 200 Experience Points." "You have obtained a total of: 800 Experience Points and 200 Integrated Network Coins." "Hu hu hu." Yi Qiu unlocked the Eight Gates state and then he felt a stabbing pain around his body. That sense of unlimited strength disappeared and he felt much weaker. He flicked away the White Fur Mother Wolf that he had pierced his fist through and he noticed there was a piece of wolf fang stuck deep into the back of his hand. Yi Qiu was only able to pull it out after using a large amount of strength. "Let''s hope I don''t get rabies." Yi Qiu thought about it and didn''t toss it away. As a memorial from being snuck attacked for the first time, it was really meaningful. Speaking of which, that Brown Mother Wolf was actually the partner of the White Fur Mother Wolf. Yi Qiu didn''t expect that. From the notifications of the dungeon he thought that they were all female wolves. However, it wasn''t like female and female partners didn''t exist... He exited the dungeon and felt much better. Once he left the dungeon, his injuries were much lighter. Death would become a serious injury, a heavy injury would be a moderate injury and moderate injury would become a light one. As for light injuries, they would heal right away. Yi Qiu started to use Ki to recover from his injuries. Although Monks had little healing and he could only heal himself, after the slight adjustment of the Integrated Network, Yi Qiu''s healing ability increased along with his Ki amount. It was much stronger than before. Although he couldn''t heal others, healing himself was not bad. This Wolf Pup Cave dungeon was something that Yi Qiu felt special about. At least this was the first time he was sneak attacked by a monster, he felt like his intelligence was suppressed. Thinking about it, that White Fur Mother Wolf probably noticed him long ago, running out to attract his attention to allow the Brown Mother Wolf whose brown fur had high camouflaging ability to sneak attack him. He suddenly thought about the words of an old hunter, "When you notice a wolf, then there is at least one other that is in a corner you have no idea about, staring at you with its blue eyes." As Ki flowed through his body, the stabbing pain slowly disappeared. Yi Qiu was filled with the urge to level up. When he was Level 7 and had the Mixed Energy Body, he would be able to directly heal. He wouldn''t have to slowly rotate Ki around his body, it was really inefficient. Truthfully a Monk could fight, could heal and could take damage. If there weren''t any wizards, Monks would be really outstanding in DND. The wizards in DND, especially those Epic Ranked Wizards, the best ones could pretty much kill gods. Of course, there were many wizards who died before reaching Epic rank. Yi Qiu felt that once his Monk level reached Epic, he would advance and get the Sorcerer sub-class. However thinking about it, Yi Qiu felt that it was too far away. With his current leveling speed, who knew how old he would be when he reached Epic. Maybe at that time, he would have a different thought. At least now, Yi Qiu wasn''t willing to take up another class. It was too heavy a punishment but maybe he could obtain some practical abilities through the Bloodline. Yi Qiu thought about it. Things like Medusa''s Petrifying Gaze was decent, although it didn''t differentiate between enemies and allies, it would definitely kill minions. Thinking about it, he was probably unable to come into contact with such a high-quality Bloodline at such an early stage. However, that wasn''t certain either. Heyu''s Blood didn''t seem like a low-quality Bloodline. After all, it was a beast from Classic of Mountains and Seas and from the description it had the calamity property. The Classic of Mountains and Seas even described it as bringing a flood the moment one saw it. It seemed a little subtle but in the end it differed from beast to beast. Monks lacked control, especially crowd control. Although he could use experience to learn Fist of Awe, he didn''t want to spend Experience Points now. After all he lacked experience and to learn this he needed to spend 1,000 points. This was simply too expensive. After killing the White Fur Mother Wolf, it dropped a chest. Yi Qiu was too lazy to pray as he felt that it was more worth it to use the +2 Luck of higher grade chests when merging Bloodlines. Easy difficulty chests couldn''t get him a suitable Bloodline. Yi Qiu also felt that people with balls were more lucky. After all he did get the Heyu''s Blood the first time and subsequently he didn''t get many good Bloodlines. The strength of the wild boar barely increased Yi Qiu''s damage but that Wild Boar Princess was such a con. He didn''t have enough Integrated Network Coins so he couldn''t merge with the pangolin blood. However, Yi Qiu didn''t want to merge with it. Yi Qiu felt that he should merge with Bloodlines with useful abilities or ones that could strengthen his stats. So, how should he deal with the wolf meat to make it more delicious? Yi Qiu looked toward the bloody wolf meat, he had a headache. As an opponent worthy of respect, he had to eat it up to show his respect to it. Chapter 16：Wolf Tail Famous gourmet Bear Grylls once said, "Steam all things, boil all things." What he meant was that everything could be steamed and if you didn''t like to steam things, you could boil it instead. Actually there was also a hidden meaning in this, which was Bear''s representative words in the food world: As long as you remove the head, everything can be eaten... Yi Qiu had never handled wolf meat before, actually, most people probably had never either. This was why Yi Qiu was really curious about how the wolf meat tasted like. Yi Qiu minced the wolf meat in a deft manner and tossed it into boiling water to cook. The texture of wolf meat and boar meat was really different. The wild boar meat was more bouncy while the wolf meat was tighter and tough. Protector Mother Wolf''s material bag: Origin: Wolf Pup Cave (Easy difficulty) Quality: White Material types: Bone, meat, fur Description: Looks like a wet stomach bag, unless you slice apart the thick meat wall, you won''t be sure what is hiding within. Maybe it might be a rabbit leg? "Will you open the Protector Mother Wolf''s material bag?" "Yes." "You obtained 30 Integrated Network coins." "You obtained black decorative equipment: Wolf Tail." Wolf Tail: Origin: Withered Grass Plains Item level: 2 Quality: Black Durability: 25/25 Weight: 0.01kg Special effect: Natural Power - Desire Demon Wolf: After use, one obtains the power of Desire Demon Wolf, Agility adjusted to 15, Charm adjusted to 15. Sink into desires: Sink into an indescribable joy, causing your Senses to drop by 5 points. Due to Physique, there is a chance for one to obtain a short period of stunned status or excited status. Description: A wizard made this for a female servant he liked, to let her fight better. Was it fight or "fight" no one would know. PS: Black quality (Dropped item), most of them have strong effects but also have really strong after-effects. Black items can appear from all sorts of chests but they won''t appear in the final reward or dungeon collectible item production. "Pui." Yi Qiu looked at the introduction and tossed it aside. He wiped his hands. Thinking about this, Wasn''t this that plug that those weird people used? After contemplating for a moment, Yi Qiu picked it up and tossed it in his inventory. When he had more time to explore the Duoyuan Galaxy Exchange he would see whether or not there were customers with special needs. Who knows, he might be able to sell it for some Integrated Network Coins. One needed to buy tickets to enter Duoyuan Galaxy Exchange, each entry cost 100 Integrated Network Coins. It wasn''t much, but it wasn''t little either. Yi Qiu was guessing that the entry fee was probably to remind rookies like him not to waste time inside. Due to the pyramid theory, there had to be many rookies like Yi Qiu. However, there was a high death rate among them. His version was friendly and peaceful, which was why he escaped main questlines and forced quests. However, because of that he could only do dungeons. To date he had not met an intelligent being that he could talk to much less discover any other quests. However, from the Integrated Network newbie manual, when his level increased, there might be larger dungeons. There were many versions in the Integrated Network. Of course, the version of the Duoyuan Galaxy Exchange was the same. It was said that the 100 Integrated Network Coins was to pay for all the energy consumption costs for each version. It sounded quite complicated but it was just a whole bunch of nonsense. Even with Yi Qiu''s small bit of intelligence, he could guess that it was nonsense and that there were no energy consumption costs. They just didn''t want to outright tell rookies to scram from this place. Yi Qiu was thinking about how those high level elders were annoyed at the rookies surging in so they complained and the Integrated Network set such a rule. Of course all this was what Yi Qiu inferred through the Integrated Network newbie manual. Speaking of which, this manual was something Yi Qiu unknowingly found when he was reading the Class Legacy. Apart from Monk information, there were large amounts of information left by senior Monks. The thing that Yi Qiu found most useful was this so-called Integrated Network newbie manual. Although some parts of it were unreliable like number 925, "If Mages try to attack you with laser-like magic, don''t dodge, just face him with your head." Monks weren''t just a bunch of cold stones that knew how to meditate and cultivate, there were many interesting people among them. After all, saints can come out from a bunch of demons, there were many miracles and astonishing things that occured in the large Duoyuan Universe. The wolf meat rolled in the boiling water. Yi Qiu took the meat out and changed for a pot of fresh water before stewing. At the side was a ready juicy pork chop. Since Yi Qiu''s physique rose to 13, his appetite had grown. He could digest 1 portion of juicy pork chops in just an hour. However, the recovery effects became much lesser. However, it was fine. After all, the bit of health recovery wasn''t useful now. Yi Qiu could just use Ki to recover. It was good enough as long as the food was delicious. Anyway, Yi Qiu loved the taste of the juicy pork chops. He would wait till tomorrow and open up the final difficulty of Barren Gold Mine. From the description, it looked quite attractive. Yi Qiu sat on the sofa, looking at the snow and thought to himself. It would be the new year in 7 days. Yi Qiu didn''t really like or dislike the new year, after all he usually spent it in school. Yi Qiu touched his bald head. He suddenly thought about his grandfather who passed away. To him, the only person that took care of him after his parents passed was his grandpa who stayed in Dazhu Village. Unfortunately, he died early. If he obtained the Monk''s power before, he might have been able to help extend his grandpa''s life. Life wasn''t easy, one had to eat more good tasting things. Yi Qiu''s sadness came and went like smoke; just a bit of fragrant meat mixed with star anise and cinnamon and it was all gone. ... ... ... A silent night. Yi Qiu still didn''t eat the wolf meat. The gamey taste was tough to get over. Yi Qiu guessed that it wasn''t something he could deal with. After all, he only knew how to marinate wild boar and had never done much with wolf. However, he still didn''t want to give up. After searching online, Yi Qiu noticed that many people ate wolf meat, there were also many detailed steps. One had to really respect the strength of the Chinese tradition. Yi Qiu was prepared to cook it again at noon. He had something more important now: Elite Barren Gold Mine, the final difficulty of Barren Gold Mine! Barren Gold Mine: Dungeon Challenge Difficulty: 2- Dungeon difficulty: Elite Dungeon requirements: Kill all the Dog-Head Men inside the Barren Gold Mine. PS: You are entering the final difficulty of a dungeon. The monsters in the final difficulty will be stronger than what you had originally challenged. The boss monster that appears will obtain special abilities and even monster classes. The little monsters will obtain stronger stats and increase in resistance. PS: After challenging the final difficulty of the dungeon, one will obtain the highest reward from the dungeon, rare drops and dungeon collectibles. Once completed, the dungeon will disappear. "Will you challenge Barren Gold Mine (Elite difficulty)?" "Yes!" ... Chapter 17：Elite Barren Gold Mine Barren Gold Mine: Dungeon Challenge Difficulty: 2- Dungeon difficulty: Elite Dungeon requirements: Kill all the Dog-head Men inside the Barren Gold Mine. PS: You are entering the final difficulty of a dungeon. The monsters in the final difficulty will be stronger than what you had originally challenged. The boss monster that appeared will obtain special abilities and even monster classes. The little monsters will obtain stronger stats and increase in resistance. PS: After challenging the final difficulty of the dungeon, one will obtain the highest reward from the dungeon, rare drops and dungeon collectibles. Once completed, the dungeon will disappear. "Will you challenge Barren Gold Mine (Elite difficulty)?" "Yes!" Along with the familiar dizzy feeling, Yi Qiu entered the dark cave. As they said, people who were skilled were more bold. As his strength increased, Yi Qiu wasn''t so nervous when he challenged new dungeons or new difficulties. Instead, he was more eager about it. Newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, this probably described Yi Qiu''s current mentality. This time Yi Qiu didn''t bring quicklime, he only brought javelins and pepper spray. Truthfully, Yi Qiu felt no pressure at all dealing with the Dog-Head Men. Although Barren Gold Mine had many turns and corners, it wasn''t that long. Yi Qiu walked for a while and he bumped the patrolling minion. Yes, the patrolling Dog-Head Man minion who was wearing a body of random equipment. It didn''t look very scary, just really amusing. "Wang wang wang!" The Dog-Head Man minion waved its shovel and charged at Yi Qiu. Yi Qiu was too lazy to use pepper spray, after all, these minions didn''t need him to punch twice previously. "Peng!" He dodged the shovel of the first Dog-Head Man and he punched right at its face! It didn''t feel good, actually, it felt a little hard. The Dog-Head Man staggered back, holding its nose while barking at him. Yi Qiu who didn''t use Eight Gates had only 12 Strength. However, to the minions, even at Hard difficulty one punch was enough to kill them. It seemed like the Elite difficulty minions were much stronger. However, no matter how much stronger they were, they were just minions. Only their stats and resistance were increased, to them it just meant that they took a few more hits. Yi Qiu followed it up with a whip kick and then he used Ki to launch Flurry of Blows to KO the minion. "You have killed Dog-Head Man minion, obtaining 20 Experience Points." After consuming close to 20% Ki, he finally killed the bunch of Dog-Head Man minions. As he had Reflex Dodge, Yi Qiu didn''t get injured. Reflex Dodge based on 12 Sense points was enough to dodge all the random and uncoordinated attacks from the Dog-Head minions. "Hu." Yi Qiu adjusted his breathing. Such a battle was just a warmup to him now. He followed the dark cave and walked forward and he noticed that all the Dog-Head Men were all gathered together. The head was the Sadistic Dog-Head Man. It rode on the pangolin. Unlike the Easy and Hard difficulty where it held a whip, this time it held an old looking staff. Yi Qiu touched his bald head. The discovery of the staff gave him a headache, magic wasn''t that easy to deal with. Before learning Diamond Soul which increased magic resistance, Monks and other classes weren''t much different toward magic. Most of the time, the effects of magic weren''t purely just physics or chemistry, especially damage magic. The theories of normal damage magic was: Using psychic forces or the energy in one''s own body to gather the tiny floating particles all around, restricting them in a designed model. After gathering it, one will shoot out the magic from a designed exit. The chaotic particle ball will scatter in a short time. The enemies that are caught in the trajectory will be damaged by the sharp and chaotic damage. Such damage was hard to defend against. Like the fireball technique, the burning effect was due to the high-temperature particles that formed the fireball. The main damage itself was still the piercing-type damage caused by the particles. The high-temperature particles that formed the fireball would be called Fire Essence and the damage caused by the essence was flame damage. This is why it was best just to charge instead. Yi Qiu squinted his eyes, the Ki in his body surged toward the Gate of Opening... Yi Qiu''s pupils slightly constricted... "Eight Gates - Gate of Opening, open!" "Xiu!" He didn''t say anything, directly clenching his fist and charging at the Sadistic Dog-Head Man! "...in popo" The Sadistic Dog-Head Man chanted some weird curse and a red light appeared on his staff. The Dog-Head Man minions protected beside it. "Hong!" Very quickly the Sadistic Dog-Head Man completed the casting and an eye-catching fireball appeared in the sky. It swiftly flew toward Yi Qiu! The fireball was really quick, in just a blink of an eye, it was right in front of Yi Qiu! The light that shone when the fireball was formed was too eye-catching. Yi Qiu who had gotten used to the dark environment was temporarily blinded. This was why when the fireball was about to hit him, he only had time to use his arms to block. An unimaginable pain nearly made Yi Qiu pass out. Luckily, the fireball technique from the Sadistic Dog-Head Man wasn''t too strong. Yi Qiu guessed that the casting method was Azeroth''s wizard system, using his body''s own energy to cast it. This was why it could grasp such a damage spell at such an early stage. If it was the fireball technique in DND which used psychic powers and used the strength of The Weave, Yi Qiu would probably be outside the dungeon and in a weakened state. The high-temperature particle scattered, not dealing any extra burning damage to Yi Qiu. However, the flames from the fireball itself dealt great damage to Yi Qiu''s hands and body. On the Integrated Network interface, it was pretty much a loss of 40% health. Eight Gates was still reducing his health, Yi Qiu bore with the pain and continued to charge at the Sadistic Dog-Head Man! The Dog-Head Man minions blocked Yi Qiu so he could only deal with them first. While fighting, he saw that the Sadistic Dog-Head Man was chanting once more. He definitely couldn''t allow it to cast the fireball, if not it would be GG for Yi Qiu. He could only take a gamble! Yi Qiu sidestepped and dodged a shovel smack from a minion. He took a few steps back. The minions didn''t chase and just protected around the Sadistic Dog-Head Man. Bearing the pain, Yi Qiu directed his Ki toward the second gate in his head - Gate of Healing! "Eight Gates - Gate of Healing, open!" The lowest requirement for Gate of Healing was Physique 13, Senses 13, Yi Qiu didn''t reach either but he forcefully opened it. An unimaginable stabbing pain nearby caused Yi Qiu to faint. His health was quickly dropping! At the same time, 17 points of Strength and Agility and the quick recovery of stamina caused Yi Qiu to feel a tale of two worlds. He had no time to hesitate! Any second and his body could explode, resulting in his death! 17 points of Strength gave him 17 times more explosiveness than normal humans! In the dark cave, Yi Qiu and his loud voice was like a high-speed train charging right at the Sadistic Dog-Head Man. A minion tried to block but the powerful momentum caused it to fly toward the wall. After a "peng" it became a pile of meat mixed in with pieces of clothes. Yi Qiu''s body was in flames. His small blood vessels couldn''t take the pressure and exploded. However, this sort of pain couldn''t be compared to even a small percent of the stabbing pain in his body. "Hong!" Chapter 18：Dungeon Collectible The stats calculation of the Integrated Network wasn''t a simple addition. Each stat point in Integrated Network was a 0.5 times increase from the previous point. 17 points of Strength was not just 7 points more than 10, but it was 1.5 times to the power of 7 more than 10 points of strength, reaching 17 times more. When one reached 20, they would have 57 times more strength than a normal person. If one had 20 points in Strength, their explosiveness and speed would exceed the speed of sound. In Duoyuan Galaxy, 20 points in any stat was considered extraordinary. It meant that in this aspect, you were a whole different species compared to normal people. ... ... ... Yi Qiu only had that Sadistic Dog-Head Man in his field of sight. Nothing would be able to stop him! "...yin popo" The Sadistic Dog-Head Man''s chanting ended. The old staff once again let out a slight red glow! However, it didn''t shoot the fireball out as Yi Qiu charged in front of him with a terrifying pressure! "Peng!" The power formed by brute strength ripped open the weak skin of the Sadistic Dog-Head Man. The moment a patch of blood spurted out, Yi Qiu''s fist smashed into the face of the Sadistic Dog-head Man. Like the sound of a watermelon breaking apart, the thick and strong skull tried to complete its mission but its weak joints were already broken. The strong momentum formed a huge pressure that directly exploded the head of the Sadistic Dog-head Man. White, red, meat paste filled with meat covered the walls of the cave. The fireball technique that lost control was also starting to be unstable. Yi Qiu''s quickly picked up the green chest that the Sadistic Dog-Head Man dropped. In the next moment, the fireball exploded! "Hong!" the scorching and temporary heat damaged all living beings in the area! The Dog-Head Man minions all burned and died under the damage from the fireball technique! Yi Qiu''s Life value turned red which represented that he was falling unconscious! Before he was able to stop Eight Gates, he couldn''t take the piercing pain and lost consciousness. Ki lost control and went berserk in his body! "Peng!" Yi Qiu''s skin exploded! Blood spurted out! Yi Qiu once again lost consciousness... "You killed Sadistic Dog-Head Man (Elite difficulty), you obtained 50 Integrated Network Coins." Dungeon requirements reached, tabulating results. "Your evaluation in the dungeon: Near-death adventure." "You have obtained an extra 5,000 Experience Points and 1,000 Integrated Network Coins." "You obtained a base reward of 3,000 Experience Points and 500 Integrated Network Coins." "You obtained dungeon collectible: Barren Gold Mine." "You have obtained a total of: 8,000 Experience Points and 1500 Integrated Network Coins." Dungeon Collectible: Barren Gold Mine: Collectible level: Basic Dungeon level: 2- Collectible production: Ore, experience, coins Collectible Dungeon has current resources: 15 Dog-Head Man minions (Challenge level: 1), 1 pangolin (Challenge level 1+), 1 Sadistic Dog-Head Man (Challenge level: 2), Gold Mine (Amount: Little) Orders: 1. Sacrifice: Sacrifice all the selected beings in the dungeon, obtaining experience based on their challenge level (highest current is 550) 2. Dig: Order the Dog-Head Men to dig the mine for you, current efficiency: 25 ore (random quality and type)/each day 3. Reorganize: Refresh all resources in the dungeon, after 1 natural day one can use it once more 4. Tribute: Order the Dog-Head Men to pay tribute to you, providing Integrated Network Coins based on their level (Current highest 100/day), random chest (Chest level: White-Green)/day PS: When a small-sized dungeon''s strongest being (Normally in the final difficulty) is killed the Integrated Network will turn the source of the dungeon into a collectible. The dungeon collectible is connected to the Integrated Network and forms a mental space using the source of the dungeon. You can use the collectible to control the beings in the dungeon (If monsters exist in the dungeon) to work for you and you can randomly obtain living being cards when hunting monsters to place in the dungeon. But, beings formed through such a method are one-time use so they will disappear after death and won''t be refreshed each day. PS: Each person can have as many dungeon cards, but only one will be an effect. One can choose to merge extra cards with the original one, exchange it or sell in the Duoyuan Galaxy Exchange. One can obtain relevant news regarding raising the level of Dungeon Cards from the Quest Hall in the center of Duoyuan Universe. To enter the Quest Hall, one needs to be level 5. ... ... ... Yi Qiu exited the dungeon, jumped on the sofa and didn''t move at all. Although he passed the dungeon, due to forcefully opening the Gate of Healing, his body exploded and he died. Now he was in the 24 hours of soul weakness state. It never felt good to die, the state of weakness of the soul made him feel really weak. Especially the moment he was teleported out of the dungeon, it was like his entire body was empty. Yi Qiu didn''t fear death much, but the sense of weakness on his soul was like maggots feeding on a corpse, it was really unbearable. Yi Qiu looked toward the ceiling in a daze, he felt like he needed to stare at girls for a full day to relax. Thinking about that, Yi Qiu didn''t bother about his gains from the dungeon. He packed his stuff and headed to the park, City C was in the south, the air was humid which was why during the winter, the cold wind was penetrative, it felt a little like magic damage. Yi Qiu shook his thick winter clothing, the chill wind caused him to be slightly more energetic. It was already noon, the snow from a few days ago hadn''t melted. There were very few people in the park. However, as it was the school district of S University, students were never afraid of the cold, maybe their stockings were able to resist the cold. Yi Qiu laid on the park bench, everything went back to the first time he had obtained the strength of the Monk. However, that time it was because of his fear of the Brown Tooth Boar. This time it was because he suddenly went from a superman who could run a marathon in a short time to a powerless weakling. The physical and psychological pain was just so unbearable. As a Teacher''s College, the girl ratio at S University was really high and they were all of high quality. After taking a look at them for a period of time, Yi Qiu felt that he recovered. As expected, what experts said about how one''s lifespan would expand when they looked at pretty girls each day was correct. Yi Qiu agreed. He collected his emotions and used his mind to open the personal interface. The huge amount of experience he got from passing the Elite Barren Gold Mine was enough for him to level up to Level 4! "Raising Monk level needs 3,000 Experience, will you do so?" "Yes!" Chapter 19：Heart Calm Like Water Your Monk level has risen to Level 3." "Due to your Physique, your Life Value has increased." "You have obtained a class baptism." "You learned Stillness of Mind." "You learned Swift Movement." Lv1 Stillness of Mind: Meditation allows you to calmly face all things and spells that affect your mind. Effect: Facing control and illusionary magic and effects, character has a 10% chance (chance and skill level, spell level and effect, etc., are related) of being immune to these spells and effects. PS: "When facing temptation, if you can''t have a still mind, you will be hard like iron." - Integrated Network Newbie Manual Lv1 Swift Movement: When one is wearing light armor or unarmored, character obtains 3m/second basic movement speed buff, the buff can be increased by magic effects as well as character''s own buffs. An endless warm current reduced Yi Qiu''s soul weakness, the class baptism wouldn''t increase his stats but it was more of a passive increase. Suddenly Yi Qiu felt like the earth''s gravity was lighter and he felt his body become lighter. Like he didn''t need to use strength and would be able to cover a long distance. Before Yi Qiu was able to rise up to vent out his desire to run, a calm aura overcame Yi Qiu. The sense of annoyance from the weakness of the soul was cleared out, anxiousness, anger, etc., negative emotions were swept clean. At the same time, his desire for girls was gone too... Yi Qiu: ??? Looking at the girls who passed by, Yi Qiu noticed that he wasn''t tempted at all, he even had an urge to go eat pork chops... "Misfortune!" Yi Qiu touched his bald head and sighed. Delicious food was the only joy left in his life. In the noon of winter, sunlight gently shone on this corner of the park, a bald-headed man seemed really depressed and sad. ... ... ... If there were no more girls in your world, then you needed to eat better to fill that void. Yi Qiu returned home and started to dejectedly eat the juicy pork chop that had stewed for a long time. Afterward, he felt revived with full health! Stillness of Mind was far stronger than its description. Humans were emotional characters, naturally, they would be affected by emotions that formed due to various reasons, especially modern-day people who lived in such volatile cities. Due to his experiences, Yi Qiu was calmer than most people, but he was still a person. As long as one was human, one would have emotions and one wouldn''t be able to escape the cycle of life and death, unable to avoid all demons. They will love and they will leave, they will be angry and they will hate, they will crave things. Stillness of Mind could let him stay far away from the interruptions of these negative emotions. Like what the name describes, Stillness of Mind. It was different from the stillness that normal people could get, but a special effect that Monks obtained through meditation. Thus, it wouldn''t cause Yi Qiu to be like a statue that couldn''t feel joy or happiness. It just blocked those negative and depressing feelings from his mind. After finishing the juicy pork chop, Yi Qiu once again opened the Integrated Network interface. Passing the Elite Barren Gold Mine gave him large amounts of experience. Deducting the 3,000 points from before, he was left with 6,590 Integrated Network Experience. It needed 6000 Integrated Network Experience Points to level up to Level 4. This meant that he could level up once more! "Raising Monk level requires 6,000 Integrated Network Experience, will you level up?" "Yes!" "Your Monk level increased to Level 4." "Due to your physique, your Life Value has increased." "You have obtained a class baptism." "You learned Douqi Strike." "You learned Feather Falling." "You obtained a point of free stat!" Name: Yi Qiu Class: Monk (lvl4) class has been locked, the lowest level cannot fall below Level 1. Life value: 70% (Life value determines health, stamina. When it is below 10%, the person is weak and has no strength. When it is less than 5%, the person will be in shock, when it drops to 0%, the person will be dead.) Ki: 75/75 (Ki is the source of a Monk''s power, when one uses Monk skills, one has to consume Ki.) Strength: 12 (Power determines the strength of muscles and one''s physical body.) Agility: 10 (Agility decides reaction and thinking speed, hand-eye coordination and balance.) Physique: 13 (Physique determines Life value and resistance.) Intelligence: 10 (Intelligence determines one''s learning and inferring ability.) Charm: 9 (Charm decides one''s charisma, persuasion, personal attraction, leadership ability and external attraction.) Senses: 12 (Senses decide one''s mental strength, judgment, sensory ability and intuition.) Luck: 10 (Luck determines everything else that doesn''t have anything to do with one''s power.) Bloodline Ability: Prayer (Rare), Clarity (Rare), Strengthening (Rare) Class skills: Lvl4 Flurry of Blows (Common): When one is empty-handed, after launching an attack, you can consume Ki to launch an extra attack. The strength of this extra attack is in direct correlation with the consumed Ki amount, but it cannot exceed your strongest strike. Lv4 Unarmed Attack (Common): All your unarmed attacks will obtain 10% damage buff, including but not limited to: Fists, elbow and legs. Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique (Elephant): Raise Strength and Physique to 12. Eight Gates: Gate of Opening, Gate of Healing Lv2 Stillness of Mind: Meditation allows you to calmly face all things and spells that affect your mind. Effect: Facing control and illusionary magic and effects, character has a 10% chance (chance and skill level, spell level and effect, etc., are related) to be immune to these spells and effects. PS: "When facing temptation, if you can''t have a still mind, you will be hard like iron." - Integrated Network Newbie Manual Lv2 Swift Movement: When one is wearing light armor or unarmored, character obtains 3m/second basic movement speed buff, the buff can be increased by magic effects as well as character''s own buffs. Lv1 Douqi Strike: Injection of Ki to pierce the defenses of the enemy. When facing enemies with special armor, character''s unarmed strikes can be seen as a magic weapon. Lv1 Feather Falling: Activates Ki to reduce damage human takes from falling. You can be immune from damage from heights of 6 meters. When the fall is from higher than 6 meters, you will still take damage, but when calculating damage, deduct 6 meters of height. Condition: Bald Head Explosive Strike (Rare): When one is bald, it is easier for you to deal critical hits to your enemy. Effect: Critical rate increased by 5% Non-combat stats: Cooking: 24 Free stat point: 1 PS: Please pay attention! Free stat points are really precious, you can use them to raise any stat. Only by raising class level to a certain level will you obtain free stat points that are really limited. In epic and legend battles there is a chance to obtain free stat points from God rewards! Overall Evaluation: Challenge Level 4 Pure stats can accumulate to form a monster, adding stats in and one would become a legend. Level 4 Monk allowed Yi Qiu to learn Douqi Strike and Feather Falling. Douqi Strike was a core technique of Monks which meant that Yi Qiu would be able to deal normal damage to Yin Souls and Spirits. In truth, unless one''s Strength reached 20, types of beings like Yin Souls and Spirits would not suffer any damage from an attack, even if you tired yourself to death. Before that, you would probably be sucked dry by them. As for Feather Falling, 6 meters didn''t seem like much, but when he reached Level 20, he would be immune from all fall damage with Feather Falling. That''s right, he didn''t need feathers or any pile of hay. He just needed to reach Level 20 and he would be immune... Pui, randomly jumping in maps purely on blind faith wasn''t just a dream! Chapter 20：Dragon-Li Yi Qiu looked outside the window. He lived on the 4th floor, around 12 meters high. If he jumped down and his bald head landed on the ground... his body should remain intact. He touched his bald head and tossed aside all his random thoughts. He took out the Dungeon Card of the Barren Gold Mine. The Barren Gold Mine Dungeon Card was the same size as a poker card. On the back was a scenery that gave off a luster. On the cover was the full view of Barren Gold Mine: Within the caves that curved and turned like an earthworm, Sadistic Dog-Head Man and its little brothers strolled around. The scenery moved. When Yi Qiu focused his gaze on it, the cover of the card would describe the situation. Dungeon Collectible: Barren Gold Mine: Collectible level: Basic Dungeon level: 2 Collectible production: Ore, experience, coins Collectible Dungeon has current resources: 15 Dog-Head Man minions (Challenge level: 1), 1 pangolin (Challenge level 1+), 1 Sadistic Dog-Head Man (Challenge level: 2), Gold Mine (Amount: Little) Orders: 1. Sacrifice: Sacrifice all the selected beings in the dungeon, obtaining experience based on their challenge level (highest current is 550) 2. Dig: Order the Dog-Head Men to dig the mine for you, current efficiency: 25 ore (random quality and type)/each day 3. Reorganize: Refresh all resources in the dungeon, after 1 natural day one can use it once more 4. Tribute: Order the Dog-Head Men to pay tribute to you, providing Integrated Network Coins based on their level (Current highest 100/day), random chest (Chest level: White-Green)/day Yi Qiu tried to give the ''Dig'' order, a notification appeared on his retina: "Will you give the order: dig?" "Yes." Instantly the Dog-Head Men stopped strolling around, picked up their shovels and started digging. What was worth mentioning was that the Sadistic Dog-Head Man picked up its whip and started to monitor them. "Dog-Head Men have started digging, current efficiency is 25 ore/day, ore will be sent directly to your inventory. If your inventory does not have space, it will be left in the dungeon. When the dungeon resets, these items will be cleared. After studying the Barren Gold Mine card, Yi Qiu kept it. His gains from the Elite Barren Gold Mine were unexpectedly huge. Yi Qiu thought back to the pumpkin field that he had not been doing much with. Due to how the Brown Tooth Boar was really strong against newbies, Yi Qiu didn''t like it. Even if he killed it, he would select the Easy difficulty. Now it seemed like if he could complete the last difficulty he should. Although he would gain less if it becomes a card, he wouldn''t need to waste time to clear it anymore. Experience was never enough. DND had many professions that had skills better than class skills. Sometimes they helped to buff the class skills. In the Integrated Network class system, all professions were listed as extra skills and one needed to use Experience to unlock them. Not to mention raising Monk level. Yi Qiu was curious. If someone obtained the Wizard class, then how much Experience would one need to unlock spells Although Wizards were Wizards, Yi Qiu felt that when he reached Epic, he could even try to become a God already. Wizards were strong but they wasted resources. Yi Qiu found out while reading the newbie manual that a version had at least five people. That was because at Level 10 would unlock a war selection. As compared to the dungeon, war was a bigger world with many intelligent people in it. It was tough for one person to decide a war. Unless you were already at Epic, even if you were strong, you would be helpless in a war of hundreds of people. Of course in a brutal war, in a battle between order and chaos of a universe, no matter how many Epics there were, it was useless. Yi Qiu was really curious, what were the classes of the other four people on earth...? ... ... ... Some corner of earth. "Let''s go! Right, this is it!" "Skin!" ... Some condominium. "Oh my god, so painful, including my little brother!" "Ak, cannot pierce the leather of a wild boar, oh my god, did Ares transform it?" ... Some beach. "Kaya, what happened? Your complexion looks bad?" "This model is really hard for me, damn it, my head hurts again!" "Okay, you are always like this. Little Miss Doctor, do you need sunblock?" ... ... ... A silent night. After a day of rest, Yi Qiu felt really energetic. However, the soul weakness debuff was still there for some time. Yi Qiu was prepared to eat breakfast and then head to train his Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique. Although he had one point of free stat, he wouldn''t touch it, unless he faced a dungeon he couldn''t clear or some life or death danger in real life. The free stat point in the Integrated Network was really precious. Especially in this version, he had to carefully deal with each stat point he had. Of course he knew that using it now could quickly raise his combat strength. But, if he could clear the dungeon, then there was no need to use it. It wouldn''t give him any extra rewards and would instead affect the Bloodline merger and Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique effects. Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique added a certain amount of stats each layer, like the first one increased Physique and Strength to 12 points. If your Strength and Physique exceeded 12, then even if you completed the first layer you would not get extra stats. Bloodline and Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique were the same. Each level of Bloodline had a relative stat upper limit. If you exceeded that, merging with Blood wouldn''t do anything. Breakfast was juicy pork chop. Yi Qiu was prepared to marinate the wolf meat once he returned at noon. However, when he was prepared to eat, a guest came. Yes, it. A Dragon-Li cat, those found in Chinese gardens. In local words, it was just a stray cat. Cats were special animals, especially Dragon-Lis. Dragon-Lis were natural cats, they weren''t close to people, and their gazes... Have you heard of how kings looked down on people? Yi Qiu''s building was one of those old ones. Outside his living room was the balcony and between houses the balconies were close, especially since people had racks to dry clothes. Hence, to these cats, it wasn''t a problem to jump from one to the other. This unwelcome guest stared at Yi Qiu with its yellow-green eyes. Yi Qiu guessed that it was attracted by the smell of the juicy pork chops. "Miao?" Chapter 21：Probably Interested After Seeing Looks Dragon-Lis mostly weren''t close to people, but if you fed them the fish snacks they loved, then the situation would be different. It would use its head to brush against your legs and then beg for food. It would make you misunderstand that you are its owner. But when it was full, you would know that it was the true master and in that short moment of gentleness, it was just being nice. "So you want to eat this?" Yi Qiu picked up a piece of juicy steak and waved it at the Dragon-Li. What was worth mentioning was that the Dragon-Li was orange in color. "Miao!" The Dragon-Li glanced at Yi Qiu and then used its yellow-green eyes to stare right at... the juicy steak in his hand. Yi Qiu touched his bald head. He stood up and placed the juicy steak by the balcony. The Dragon-Li warily took a few steps back. Once Yi Qiu moved aside, it ran beside the steak that Yi Qiu placed and after slashing at it with its claws, it chewed it up and then jumped onto the drying rack beside it. It then disappeared from Yi Qiu''s field of sight. Yi Qiu touched his bald head. Speaking of which, ever since he became bald he loved to touch his own head, it felt really good to touch. Teacher Jia who lived beside him didn''t raise any cats. However, he recalled that someone said that Teacher Jia had moved and he didn''t know who was living there now. After all, apart from heading to the park to train in Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique, he would stay at home. He was pretty much a stay home nerd. As for the difference between him and a full nerd, he was poor... After feeding the Dragon-Li, Yi Qiu''s mood improved significantly. Those people who fed cats probably felt the same way too. Why take drugs for a short-term fix when feeding cats can be a lifetime affair? He ate many pieces of steak as he logged onto the Rotten Apple Playground forum. Last night he posted a question asking whether Naruto mentioned how to solve the problem of one''s body exploding when opening up the Eight Gates. For even more accurate answers, he even specified that he was talking about the second gate. He then noticed the replies were all disses... Yi Qiu summarised all of their thoughts: Eight Gates couldn''t be forcefully opened. Apart from opening the Gate of Death, Eight Gates wouldn''t cause one''s body to explode. Erm, Yi Qiu touched his bald head. He flipped open the Integrated Network Newbie Manual, using his memory to find an answer. "Integrated Network Rule 485, if you feel that there is a slight difference between the technique you learned and the technique you remembered, Integrated Network expresses that it has the final say on such matters." That was awkward. Yi Qiu was prepared to analyze animes like Naruto, One Piece, Dragon Ball, Onichichi, it seemed like there was a difference with what was expected. After finishing the juicy steak, Yi Qiu closed his laptop and was prepared to head out to train in Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique. While passing by the supermarket, Yi Qiu was prepared to buy some ingredients since those at home were nearly finished. The owner of the supermarket was surnamed Chen, the middle-aged man was slightly fat, the typical supermarket owner''s look. Yi Qiu was quite familiar with him. "I haven''t seen you in quite a few days, what are you buying?" Owner Chen warmly greeted Yi Qiu and passed him a cigarette. "Buying some condiments, those at home are all finished." Yi Qiu took the cigarette and walked toward the condiment aisle. Although it was a small supermarket, it had everything. Although the brands weren''t new, the prices were really affordable. Salt, cooking wine, cinnamon... Yi Qiu chose everything and took a large amount of them because he was too lazy to make so many trips and condiments were able to last for a long time. "A total of 143, you can just give me 140." Owner Chen weighed the condiments that Yi Qiu took and then pressed his calculator a few times. Then, he helped place everything into a small bag. "Okay." Yi Qiu paid and just as he was about to leave, a woman walked in: She wasn''t tall, roughly 160-170cm, around Yi Qiu''s height. She wore a white winter dress and there was a furry cartoon scarf around her neck. Long black and silky hair rested on her shoulder, revealing her clean face. Her eyes were bright, giving off a very studious and demure aura. The sun was shining really bright and the supermarket door faced the east. When she entered, sunlight shone onto her face. Yi Qiu felt like the world had become grey and that this person was the only thing left in front of him. Time seemed to have stopped, like a picture that stopped in place. In the next moment, Yi Qiu''s beating heart calmed down. He moved aside and allowed her to enter. He then walked out, keeping a straight face. Was there really love at first sight, it was just people being attracted to physical appearances. Yi Qiu wasn''t surprised, he just didn''t use charm to prove it. Yi Qiu lit up the cigarette that Owner Chen gave him and he inhaled deeply. It was slightly bitter, it didn''t feel rough, but really smooth. Some people had only one such love in their life, but that short moment was actually enough. Yi Qiu tossed the cigarette, using his leg to extinguish it. He was a bald man that was going to be extraordinary, how could he sink under such lowly things like love? He was turning to leave when he heard Owner Chen''s voice: "Teacher Yu, what are you buying?" ... ... ... It was lunchtime once Yi Qiu finished training his Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique. He started to marinate the wolf meat once he returned. Based on the recipe he found, he soaked it in cold water and then added in a lot of spices to stew it. As expected, the brown Dragon-Li came over once more. Truthfully cats wouldn''t recognize a master, especially natural cats like these. If one raised it from young and treated it well, it would treat you as a good... good slave. The wolf meat wasn''t done, so Yi Qiu took a juicy pork chop and placed it on the balcony. The reason why Yiu Qui gave it the pork chop was because he was afraid the wolf meat couldn''t be eaten. After all, it was deep in his memory, it was extremely smelly and the texture was really rough. He also guessed that he would have to stew the wolf meat for a long time. Yi Qiu used his chopsticks to poke the wolf meat. He probably wouldn''t be able to have it for lunch so he started to eat the pork chop. His soul weakness had passed, so today he was going to attempt the Hard difficulty pumpkin field! "Will you challenge Pumpkin Field Ravaged by Wild Boar (Hard difficulty)?" "Yes!" Dungeon: Pumpkin Field that a wild boar ravaged Challenge level: 1+ Dungeon difficulty: Hard Dungeon completion demands: Kill the Brown Tooth Boar that ravages the pumpkin field After the familiar dizziness, Yi Qiu appeared in the pumpkin field. The air was thick with the smell of pumpkin. This time, Yi Qiu didn''t want to spray it with quicklime and pepper spray. He wanted to fight it face to face! Chapter 22：Let Me Explain The change in difficulty wouldn''t affect the landscape, at least that was the case for Barren Gold Mine. Yi Qiu didn''t bring any items as Douqi Strike was his strongest weapon. Lv1 Unarmed Attack allowed him to use various unarmed strikes well, much less a Level 4 Unarmed Attack. What was worth mentioning was that skills leveled along with class level, some required him to spend Integrated Network Experience to level up. Skills he learned when he leveled would be the former, for example his Unarmed Attack which he learned at Level 1. Now that he was a Level 4 Monk, it also rose to Level 4. The skills that he needed to spend Integrated Network Experience on were skills like Wizard Spells. Leveling up a Wizard only unlocked spell spaces, of course this just refers to Wizards who used mental strength to cast spells. Simply put, the wizards in DND. The Mana Wizards that people talked about used their own body''s energy to cast spells. When they leveled up, spell slots wouldn''t unlock. In truth they didn''t have such slots. Strictly speaking, mana wizards were more similar to mages in DND, they all obtained spells when they leveled up and they could level them up at any time. The difference between mages and wizards were in their different expenses. For example, mages needed to raise bloodline. Thus, not only did they need Integrated Network Experience to raise spells, they needed to spend Integrated Network Coins. It was the same for mana wizards. ... ... ... Near the old place, Yi Qiu found the Brown Tooth Boar. It seemed like the added difficulty gave it stats, at least that was the case for its size. Looking at the Brown Tooth Boar which was pretty much a head taller than him, Yi Qiu was really calm. After he faced a spell-like fireball, the threat of size alone was not enough to scare him. Of course, that could just be the effect of Stillness of Mind. "Aang!" The Brown Tooth Boar seemed to only know that one strike. It used its car-like body to smash into the enemy and then crush them! Just that combo alone would be enough to deal with all the newbies who were scared motionless. Of course, if one dodged its first strike, then you would notice that this 2-meter tall being was quite cumbersome. However, this time Yi Qiu didn''t plan to dodge! Yi Qiu squinted his eyes, his pupils constricted! "Eight Gates, Gate of Opening, open!" His 12 points of Strength instantly rose to 16, a close to 5 times increase! Yi Qiu stared at the charging Brown Tooth Boar and then charged forward at it! "Peng!" A 1.7 meters bald man and close to 2 meters tall wild boar smashed into one another! "Xiu!" Yi Qiu was pushed 2 meters back! The Brown Tooth Boar stumbled slightly and then stabilized itself. Yi Qiu shook off his arms, this pure muscle and power clash made him a little excited! As compared to using quicklime and pepper spray, he loved to use pure strength to win. This allowed him to feel his own strength rather than just purely relying on tools. Weapons and magic effects stacked damage. But, between weapons and magic, most people would choose magic. That was because magic belonged to one''s own strength while weapons were the power of the tool. "Ang!" The Brown Tooth Boar increased its speed and charged at Yi Qiu! Yi Qiu took in a deep breath and charged forward! "Peng!" The distance between them wasn''t as great as before and Yi Qiu actually managed to block it! "Ang!" The Brown Tooth Boar tried to bite Yi Qiu, Yi Qiu headbutted it! Brown Tooth Boar was stunned Yi Qiu hammered its head in. In truth, the Brown Tooth Boar wasn''t much stronger than Yi Qiu who had opened the Gate of Opening. But, due to its size and charging distance, Yi Qiu wasn''t able to block it. Using the opportunity, Yi Qiu kicked right at the Brown Tooth Boar! When facing a normal enemy, Douqi Strike wouldn''t strengthen Yi Qiu''s attacks, only protecting the area that Yi Qiu used to attack. With Yi Qiu''s Level 1 Douqi Strike, he could face normal steel weapons barehanded. Of course, that didn''t include alloyed weapons. "Peng!" Due to the Brown Tooth Boar''s size, Yi Qiu''s kick only made it shake. This was because Unarmed Attack mostly caused internal injuries. Apart from causing an ugly looking wound, one couldn''t see the Brown Tooth Boar''s injury. Yi Qiu used Flurry of Blows and kicked forward once more! As Yi Qiu couldn''t control where the Flurry of Blows landed, this kick landed on its leg! "Hong!" The Brown Tooth Boar tilted and fell over! Yi Qiu followed up and kicked its wound that was ripped open from the Ki. A familiar shockwave was sent out! Crit! Yi Qiu''s leg pierced through the skull of the Brown Tooth Boar, his entire leg went right through! "You have killed Brown Tooth Boar, obtained 50 Experience." "Dungeon requirements reached, tabulating results." "The evaluation of your results are clear: A successful martial arts demonstration." "You obtained an extra 500 Experience from killing the monster." "You obtained a basic reward of 150 Experience." "You have obtained a total of: 650 Experience" Yi Qiu pulled his leg out of the Brown Tooth Boar''s skull, which was now a pile of red and white mess. "Phew." Yi Qiu took in a deep breath and then removed Eight Gates. This battle made his blood boil! However, as the feeling of excitement in his body disappeared, the soreness and pain all over his body taught him an important lesson: Power was relative. Yi Qiu picked up the chest that had been dropped and chose to back out of the dungeon right away. After the familiar sense of dizziness, Yi Qiu returned to his room. Due to the theory of the dungeon, Yi Qiu felt much better. The dungeon wasn''t a real space, it was a mental space like a dream. Yi Qiu entering the dungeon was like a wizard''s mental projections into space. Although his mind entered the dungeon, there was still a connection with his body. Thus, after Yi Qiu returned to earth after suffering from injuries, his physical body would show signs of injury, but it would be much lighter. And when Yi Qiu brought items from earth into the dungeon, it would be after an exchange. The Integrated Network would exchange it for a mental existence. But, when this item came into contact with the flesh and blood of the monster, this item would be corrupted by the essence hidden in the monster''s blood as the souls of the item was still empty. Once it was corrupted, the item would be seen as a part of the dungeon, like the pumpkins in the pumpkin field. Yi Qiu was able to take away the meat of the Brown Tooth Boar as it was exchanged by the Integrated Network after he killed the boar, as a hidden reward. "So, there was a reason why I didn''t wear pants." Yi Qiu tried to explain to his cousin who suddenly pushed open his living room door and entered when his mind returned back to reality. ... Chapter 23：Mothers Breast Living room. Yi Qiu looked at the boiling wolf meat while he thought about something else. The cousin who barged in previously was called Zong Rong, the daughter of Yi Qiu''s third uncle. Yi Qiu''s third uncle was the third son of Dazhu Village Grandpa, he went out fishing since he was young and it was said that he was enjoying a good life. However, Yi Qiu had never seen him. Since his parents died, the person Yi Qiu was closest to was the Grandpa of Dazhu Village. He was quite familiar with this cousin as during the exam this year, she entered H Province University in C City. Thus, she would occasionally come to see Yi Qiu. H Province University was the best university in Province H, it could be ranked in the entire country. Naturally, getting into such a university was something that people were happy about. Zong Rong''s father was really rich too, so naturally they held a banquet. Although Yi Qiu didn''t pay attention to such things, he found out about all these from the family group chat. This cousin was actually younger than Yi Qiu, but sometimes one''s seniority wasn''t connected to age. As she was on holiday, Zong Rong invited her high school friends to play in City C. After settling them at City C, Zong Rong came to see Yi Qiu. Speaking of which, Yi Qiu''s house had 2 keys. Grandpa took one back and after he passed away, no one sent it back. Last week, Yi Qiu''s second uncle brought the key over, but as Yi Qiu was in the dungeon and the call couldn''t go through, second uncle gave it to Zong Rong. Zong Rong came to return the key to Yi Qiu too. After knocking for a long time and with no one answering the phone, Zong Rong thought that Yi Qiu was out. She was prepared to leave the key and a message before returning to the hotel but when she entered, she heard movement inside and then... Which was why when one was doing those indescribable things, it was best to lock the door... ... ... ... He shook his bald head and stopped thinking about these things. Yi Qiu took out the dungeon card of the Barren Gold Mine. The Dog-head Man minions were busy for a whole day. Yi Qiu picked up 25 ores from his bag. Originally, it shouldn''t have fit, but since it was of the same shape and could be stacked, it was barely able to fit. The ores were all of different shapes and sizes, but when in the inventory, they were similar pictures and thus they could be stacked. Logically though... it was mentioned in the Integrated Network Newbie Manual, but Yi Qiu''s current level of intelligence didn''t allow him to understand it... Different from the ones he picked up before, the ores had exact stats. For example, the highest quality gold ore in his bag: Small gold ore: Quality: Clutter Weight: 0.41 kg What was worth mentioning was that it was the only gold ore that he acquired... The Barren Gold Mine, as expected from its name. Yi Qiu recycled the copper ores and then he obtained 24 Integrated Network Coins from it. If ores in real life could be recycled, Yi Qiu probably wouldn''t lack any more Integrated Network Coins. However, that obviously didn''t exist. Although the ores were no different from the ones in real life, the Integrated Network didn''t recognize those in real life. Only after appraisal would the Integrated Network recognise it and the fee was relatively expensive. Thus, it was impossible to use the main world resources to exchange for Integrated Network Coins. Speaking of which, Yi Qiu''s Integrated Network coins were enough to exchange for a decent gun. But Yi Qiu felt like since he could rely on his strength to beat dungeons, there was no need to spend so much on guns. If he had a chance, it would be good if he went somewhere like Africa to get a gun. Yi Qiu wanted to get an AK47 as it was durable and easy to acquire. It was also quite powerful and if he faced a dungeon he couldn''t win, he would just use his AK47. As a modern person, Yi Qiu wasn''t too worried about weapon choice. He paid more attention to his own cultivation, but that didn''t mean that he wouldn''t rely on external strength. Gunfire weapons were indeed really strong. Cold weapons and gunfire weapons helped to differentiate eras. It referred to when one''s strength was lower but as it went on, the gap wasn''t that large. Gunfire weapons'' strength would become more and more inadequate and one would have to switch to nano weapons and light weapons. But, it was impossible for him to get these on earth. He could only exchange for them from the Integrated Network. Speaking of which, weapons were strong due to the weapons themselves. His own strength belonged to him. This was the same as the ancient swordsman who controlled the sword and those who let the sword control the factions, one focused on cultivation while one focused on borrowing external strength. There was nothing right or wrong, or strong or weak. The universe was so huge, there were many complicated thought processes and each faction had people who brought fame to them. Chinese people said something well, "Three thousand paths", what did that mean? It meant that there were many paths, one would just walk the path that they wanted to walk! If one loves guns, then one should just use guns, if one likes cannons, then use cannons, the world is so huge and it can accept everything. ... ... ... Yi Qiu opened his inventory, recycling all the random rubbish. He was now left with two chests. Barren Gold Mine - Clearance Chest: Origin: Barren Gold Mine (Elite Difficulty) Quality: Blue Chest level: 5 Description: A chest that one can get only after he clears the entire dungeon. Different from basic chests, clearance chests will have chest level, the items from within would be related to the chest level and not the level of the monster that dropped it. Clearance chests do not have related keywords and one can get anything of the same quality as the chest from it. Brown Tooth Boar''s broken copper chest: Quality: White Related phrase of the box: Boar Description: From acorn loved by the Brown Tooth Boar to Agamagan''s fang, all boar related items can be obtained from within... Of course, maybe you need a bit of luck, moreover, the quality of items will not exceed the quality of the box... As the prayer cooldown hadn''t refreshed, Yi Qiu was not prepared to open the clearance chest. As for the Brown Tooth Boar''s chest, he could open it. Truthfully, it was the best choice if he waited for the cooldown and opened it at the same time. However, Yi Qiu''s hand felt itchy. Ooo. This instinct. Every human who loved to open cases had such genes, experts couldn''t explain why. Such a gene was called the DS gene. Before opening the Brown Tooth Boar''s copper chest, Yi Qiu recalled that he could redeem a chest from the dungeon card. "Will you use order: tribute?" "Yes" "You order Dog-Head Men to hand over their items, you obtained 100 Integrated Network Coins, obtaining Barren Gold Mine chest (White)." "Dog-Head Men morale dropped, digging efficiency lowered, current efficiency: 20/day." Within the dungeon, the Dog-Head Man minions appeared to be more dejected. Morale dropped? Yi Qiu touched his bald head. Forget it, just sacrifice them, it will reset after a day. "Will you use the order: Sacrifice?" "Yes." "You sacrificed all the beings in the dungeon, obtaining 550 Integrated Network Experience." Within Barren Gold Mine dungeon, the Dog-Head Men all turned into white light, very quickly only an empty cave remained in the card. "Will you use the order: Reset?" "Yes." Yi Qiu looked as the picture on the card shone and then minions began happily jumping around. This was why Dog-Head Men were like girls'' fake breasts; if they had none then just make some? Chapter 24：Fist of Awe "Will you open Brown Tooth Boar''s copper chest?" "Yes!" "You obtained 100 Integrated Network Coins." Yi Qiu, "???" After looking at the information that appeared on his retina screen, Yi Qiu''s heart skipped a beat, he actually only received 100 Integrated Network Coins. Then, he opened the stats interface. Looking at the 10 Luck points, Yi Qiu touched his bald head and then judged that the problem was with the chest... "Will you open the Barren Gold Mine Card Chest (White)?" "Yes!" Barren Gold Mine Card Chest (White): Origin: Barren Gold Mine Dungeon Card Quality: White Description: Dungeon specific chest from the Dungeon Card, able to obtain any Barren Gold Mine related item and also a small chance to obtain a white card. "You obtained card: Dog-Head Man''s candle?" Dog-Head Man''s candle: Type: Card Origin: Eroded Rock Quality: White Card effect: After use, obtains a layer of candle light, candle light is a magical spiritual light, able to chase away demons and dark shadows. When the effect is removed or lasts for the longest time (30 natural days), character will obtain a layer of extinguished candle buff. When extinguished candle buff stacks to three levels, it will awaken an unknown presence. PS: Cards can be seen as consumables like scrolls and spells. You can use cards to obtain magical effects, from injecting energy in to summon the monster in the cards. When the monster is summoned, it will fight for you, work, even die for you. PS: "Cards can summon useful monsters!"- Integrated Network Newbie Manual 217 Along with a white light pillar, a card with a bad candle drawing appeared in Yi Qiu''s hand. "As expected, it really is the chest, why am I just so unlucky?" Yi Qiu touched his bald head and used the Dog-head Man''s candle. After an invisible tremor, Yi Qiu''s... bald head started to give off a dim magical light! He used his phone to take some photos and only after realizing that nothing changed, he was at ease. Although the effect didn''t seem useful at the moment, it was good to have 30 days of skin effects... ... ... ... After opening the chest, Yi Qiu felt really good. Yi Qiu was now a Level 4 Monk. Based on the Integrated Network, he needed 10,000 Experience to level up. With his current experience, 10,000 wasn''t a small sum. Yi Qiu had spent that amount getting from Level 1 to Level 4. For these 10,000 experience points, Yi Qiu spent half a month clearing dungeons. With his current efficiency, to level up would take him another half a month. However, due to Yi Qiu''s increase in level, he gained more experience in the dungeons and so it would be much more efficient. When he reached Level 5, Monks would have a special skill: Purity of Body! As a tanky class, a Monk''s physique wouldn''t be too low and thus their chances of falling sick were also low. What was worth mentioning was that strength wouldn''t allow you to get any illness immunity at all. Strong people wouldn''t get sick easily, but it wasn''t because of their strength but their health. In DND, Purity of Body wasn''t a skill with much presence. Even when he was at parties, this skill would only allow him to not have the excuse to ask female healers to heal him. (PS: If your party has a female that removes debuffs, then just ignore that!) However, in real life, this skill was really useful! Even if its chance was low, there was still a chance. Especially when Yi Qiu suffered from soul weakness, it was really easy for him to fall sick. Think about it, you don''t have to worry about chickenpox, swine flu, you can eat whatever you want; fried chicken, barbecue, you can eat as much as you want, just thinking about it made him drool... Which was why Yi Qiu was really motivated to level up. However, Yi Qiu was prepared to use experience to get some skills first. Currently, his attack skills consisted of opening the Gate of Opening and then charging up and using Flurry of Blows. If he felt like he couldn''t beat the opponent, then he would open up the Gate of Healing. If he still couldn''t win, then that was it. He would back out and then in the next wave, after opening the Gate of Opening, he would try using the pepper spray and quicklime. Speaking of which, although he was used to quicklime and pepper spray, he felt like it wasn''t really cool. As they say, ''Whether you are handsome or not depends on your blood, but whether you are cool or not is something that affects your life''. Monk''s had a controlling ability which was Fist of Awe! Fist of Awe required 1,000 Experience to learn. If he was at Level 2, Yi Qiu definitely wouldn''t learn it. At Level 3 he would hesitate a little... Now that leveling needed 10,000 Experience, Yi Qiu felt that 1,000 wasn''t much. "Will you learn Fist of Awe? Learning this technique consumes 1,000 Experience!" "Yes!" "Deducting 1,000 Integrated Network Experience, you have learned skill: Fist of Awe!" Fist of Awe (Cannot be leveled): After using this skill and striking an enemy, there is a chance you will stun the enemy. Fist of Awe was a special use of Ki, the theory behind it was to mix Ki with some intent to bind to the area that you attack. After hitting the enemy, the Ki will enter the enemy''s consciousness and then it would feel like someone smacking you on the back of the head with a stick. It was said that someone called Garen in the fields of Valoran was good at this move, but he buffed it on the sword. ... ... ... As they say, ''When one has a weapon, one would be tempted to kill''. With a new technique, Yi Qiu''s hand was really itchy and he felt like doing something. He had already passed the Barren Gold Mine dungeon and it turned into the Barren Gold Mine card. He just cleared the Pumpkin Field Ravaged by Wild Boar, the Wolf Pup Cave was on a cooldown so Yi Qiu was really stumped. His fist was a little itchy and he really wanted to smash something! Thinking about it, Yi Qiu started to scroll the Rotten Apple Playground Forums. He saw that City C had a comic fair today! Speaking of comic fair, Yi Qiu loved to go to them in the past. A nerd who didn''t go to comic fairs wasn''t complete and one who went and couldn''t get any girls was an even bigger failure. However, Yi Qiu now felt that all those 36D, those cosplays, those cat ears and foxtails, all those were nothing. Stillness of Mind, he let things pass by him, but he maintained his purity! Chapter 25：Is That Bald Head Waxed? In the end, Yi Qiu decided to head over to the comic fair. He was participating in violent activities every day, so occasionally he had to relax a little. The location of the fair was at an expo near the city center, it was an hour''s journey from the north school region where Yi Qiu stayed. Yi Qiu changed several buses and only arrived at 4pm in the afternoon. Comic fairs had differing time lengths, some were half a day short while some lasted for 4-5 days. Yi Qiu spent 40 RMB to buy tickets but as it was already afternoon, there were relatively fewer people at the gate. He didn''t have to queue for long and managed to enter the hall. Yi Qiu felt like he had entered another universe when he walked into the hall; in front of him was a foreigner who carried a 2-meter long blade and posed there while a bunch of people looked on. Yi Qiu didn''t come to see guys, he came to see girls! Different from normal people who looked at chest, legs and face, Yi Qiu... he too looked at chests, legs and face. But! Yi Qiu was different from them! They did so due to their raging hormones, but Yi Qiu was different. That was because before his hormones could even get worked up, the Stillness of Mind would stop all the rubbish information. Thus, Yi Qiu looked at them solely to admire their beauty... Although he wasn''t willing for things to happen like that... Thinking about how Stillness of Mind would level up along with his Monk level, when that happened, how much charm must the girl have in order to interest him? Yi Qiu felt like life was just a patch of total darkness... No wonder in the Monk Class Legacy there were so many descriptions of charming demons, Yi Qiu finally understood. Which was why, to girls there, he was not really a pervert... ... ... ... Yuan Yin Yin was a normal university student but she had a hobby! Each time she changed into a cosplay that she meticulously designed, she would feel like she was going through another life. She would toss aside all the annoying and boring things, displaying herself among a group of monsters! Yuan Yin Yin felt that this was really cool! Last night, Yuan Yin Yin received a message in the group that there was a comic fair in the city, the theme was one that Yuan Yin Yin liked! In the morning, Yuan Yin Yin prepared equipment: High-quality sabar set! It was a black costume that revealed her shoulders while wearing a white skirt and arm guard along with a fake sword, it was really.... heavy! Yuan Yin Yin recalled the first time she just wore the costume right away and headed to the fair, on the way there she received many weird looks. Which was why this time she would just bring the costume and then change it when she reached the fair. There were many people at the fair today. As a second-string city, City C''s culture was quite developed, its relevant industries were developing quickly too. Yuan Yin Yin was experienced so she was easily able to deal with those asking for photos. However, today she noticed a really weird person... Based on unreliable information, one''s sight had a temperature. Especially when one keeps on focusing on something, the temperature will rise. It could be compared to the effect of focusing sunlight on a single spot using a magnifying glass. Some people were sensitive toward this temperature, even a gaze exceeding one second was something they could pick up. Yuan Yin Yin wasn''t that sort of person, but when a gaze was focused on her for over a minute... This was why Yuan Yin Yin viciously turned her head and stared, she was very fierce! Yuan Yin Yin was stunned... What, what a shiny-headed bald man! She pulled her friend that was taking photos beside her! "The bald-headed guy waxed his head right! It is even shining!" When her friend heard this, she turned her head and looked in interest. Then, "???" "No, isn''t it quite normal?" "Is it?" Yuan Yin Yin suspiciously stared at his bald head for a long time and then she said for sure that this bald head was shining! "No, look carefully! It isn''t a reflection, but a special kind of light!" Yuan Yin Yin tried to convince her friend. "Let''s go! Your number for Elysion that you signed up for is coming up, go prep! If you want to look at bald people, then go to the mountains, there are some who will even shine your shoes!" Her friend pushed Yuan Yin Yin as she spoke. Yi Qiu regretfully looked at the sabar leave. Although City C''s comic fair was not bad, high quality girls were rare. To be able to see 3-5 at one event was decent. He looked around and as expected there weren''t any of her quality. However, Yi Qiu did feel good. Although the girl''s charm didn''t break through the immunity of Stillness of Mind, even without the effects of hormones, beautiful things would make one feel good. Like raising cats, happiness didn''t come from coitus, but of course if one did one would feel really happy... He bought a huge pillow from a stall as memorabilia. He was prepared to head back as there would be an even tougher battle for him tomorrow! ... ... ... "Hu." Yuan Yin Yin returned to her dorm. After tossing her costume into the cabinet, she didn''t want to move anymore. From the start of the fair, she had stood for over 10 hours. She even signed up to dance. She didn''t feel anything during the fair, but after she returned to the dorm she was totally burned out. She rested on the table for a while. She took out her phone and opened WeChat. After hesitating, she posted in her friend list: Queen Sabar, "Today I saw a bald head that was shining!" Lord Bil, "??? Shining? Was it waxed?" Queen Sabar, "No, it was a special light, it didn''t look like a reflection. It felt like a candlelight." Lord Bil, "Damn, so real, did he wipe some powder?" Queen Sabar, "No! I told my friend to look, but she couldn''t see it!" Lord Bil, "Oh, oh, probably a good person!" I am Sword Lord, "I can see that! Empress truly is good!" Yuan Yin Yin was speechless, this bunch of people kept teasing her. Finally, one of the seniors in the group spoke. Random Sun, "Maybe he is a reincarnated Buddha, but it isn''t useful. At most, like how you can see things that the naked eye can''t, you probably won''t face such situations many times in your life. In the next life, you would probably be a totally normal person." Lord Bil, "Haiz, I really envy you all. Yuan Yin Yin you can treat reality as a horror movie, Brother Jian doesn''t use nail clippers, Uncle Sun doesn''t need to use binoculars to peek at people. Only I, I just carry things." Queen Sabar, "Pu." Random Sun, "Cough" I am Sword Lord, "Shut up, you evil girl! My sword energy can even cut carrots okay!" ... Yuan Yin Yin shook her head. This group chat was called Chinese Non-item Culture Protection Namelist, it was a little long but the people in it were indeed inheritors of non-physical cultural items of China. Her eyes could see things that the naked eye couldn''t see like ghosts, however, till date she hadn''t seen any. Sword Lord was a talented swordsman, at 20 he cultivated sword energy, but the level at which was as he mentioned, he could only cut carrots. Senior Sun''s eyes could see things 1,000 meters away while Lord B had a photographic memory. Spiritual energy dissipating was one reason, another was with science developing, there was no room for the passing down of these so-called non-physical cultural legacies. Like Yuan Yin Yin, she was able to see ghosts, but now ghosts were even rarer than pandas. Sword Lord''s sword energy seemed strong, but in the nuclear weapons era, a small punk with a gun could KO him right away. As for the use of Lord Bil''s memory, it just meant his memory was good, but it didn''t mean his intelligence was that great. Which is why, study more and cultivate less! Chapter 26：Dyeing Hair In Darkness City A silent night. Morning. The wolf meat that stewed for the whole night was ready. The first thing Yi Qiu did after waking up was look at it. Yi Qiu picked up a piece and eagerly chomped down on it. Oo, it wasn''t as soft as pork and was actually quite chewy. Even after a night of stewing, it wasn''t easy to chew. It was still a little smelly but the spices suppressed it. Yi Qiu bit down and it felt like he was eating spicy sticks... "Miao?" As expected, when Yi Qiu looked at the balcony, that familiar orange Dragon-Li was kneeling there, staring at Yi Qiu with its bright eyes. "Are you sure you want to eat this?" Yi Qiu touched his bald head and picked a piece of meat for the Dragon-Li. Dragon-Li wasn''t as wary toward Yi Qiu anymore. This was why seducing a cat was the same as seducing a girl, it started from the tummy. Of course for girls, once would do it. If you could win over the tummy of a girl, then you would become an outstanding... backup! Facing the morning sun, Yi Qiu moved his chair and sat together with the Dragon-Li. They ate the wolf meat together as his bald head shone in the light... After breakfast, Yi Qiu was satisfied. He took out the Barren Gold Mine dungeon card from his inventory, Tribute- Sacrifice- Reset, after his daily routine was done, he obtained 100 Integrated Network Coins, 550 Experience and a Barren Gold Mine Dungeon Chest (White). What was worth mentioning was that out of the 25 ores he got from the Dog-Head Men, he didn''t get a single gold ore... Yi Qiu didn''t really care much about the gold ore because if and when he lacked money he would just sell a piece to get by. He didn''t have to buy a house. Although this small room was simple, it was enough for him. He was already used to training in the park and also looking at girls at the same time. He didn''t need to buy cars. In the future, he might even be able to run faster than sports cars. Moreover, his speed wouldn''t be restricted in the city and he wouldn''t get fined or anything... After keeping the Barren Gold Mine''s dungeon card in his inventory, he was prepared to enter a dungeon. Today, he was challenging the elite Pumpkin Field Ravaged by Wild Boar! Speaking of which, as a Level 1 dungeon, Yi Qiu felt that Pumpkin Field Ravaged by Wild Boar was much tougher than the Barren Gold Mine. Although the Elite difficulty Barren Gold Mine''s Sadistic Dog-Head Man could shoot out fireballs which caused many problems, Yi Qiu felt that the Wild Boar was much harder to deal with. Maybe to Yi Qiu, compared to the thin and small Dog-Head Men, the Brown Tooth Boar seemed more threatening. This was why the monster''s appearance was really important... Solo random dungeon (Difficulty: Easy) after passing the simple dungeon, one can unlock other difficulties. Unlocked dungeon: Challenge Level 1- Pumpkin Field Ravaged by Wild Boar (Easy, Hard, Elite) After passing the dungeon it will disappear. Challenge Level 2 - Wolf Pup Cave (Easy, Hard) After passing one can unlock Elite difficulty (Cooldown time: 5 natural days) As the Barren Gold Mine had become a dungeon card, Yi Qiu could only enter the Pumpkin Field Ravaged by Wild Boar and Wolf Pup Cave. However, only 2 days had passed since he first passed the Easy difficulty of the Wolf Pup Cave, so he couldn''t enter yet. Dungeon: Pumpkin Field Ravaged by Wild Boar Challenge Level: 2 Dungeon difficulty: Elite Dungeon requirements: Kill the infected Brown Toothed Boar PS: "One will receive an extra surprise after passing the hardest difficulty of the first dungeon, so don''t fear its difficulty being slightly higher than other dungeons." - Integrated Network Newbie Manual number 18 "Extra surprise?" Yi Qiu touched his bald head, he didn''t expect that there was something like this. Apart from the quicklime, Yi Qiu brought several other things this time. In the past, he used a rubbish bag to fill the quicklime and in truth, the low quality rubbish bags really were low quality... He had only placed it there for half a month and many of the bags were already broken. Yi Qiu was too lazy to make more, so he just brought pepper spray and javelins. Last time, he fought the Brown Toothed Boar head-on during the Hard difficulty. Although he felt great, it was quite difficult. The Elite difficulty Brown Toothed Boar would be even fiercer, so Yi Qiu was more prepared. "Will you enter Pumpkin Field Ravaged by Wild Boar (Elite difficulty)?" "Yes!" The familiar dizziness... When Yi Qiu opened his eyes, he was already in the pumpkin field. The Elite difficulty field was different, there was an indescribable stench! The pumpkins were all rotting, the disgusting water soaked into the soil causing most of it to turn grey. Yi Qiu frowned. He had never been down into the sewers before but he guessed that the smell now wouldn''t be much worse than that of the sewers. Using a javelin to push aside the rotten pumpkins, Yi Qiu started to walk toward where he used to bump into the Wild Boars. The Brown Toothed Boar was nearly at the same place as the one in the Easy and Hard difficulty. Normally, it took Yi Qiu 10 minutes to get there but this time it took half an hour. This decomposed pumpkin field was just too big, some places were totally infected. Yi Qiu could only lower his head and walk. When he passed by the Brown Toothed Boar, his legs were covered in unknown sticky substances. Yi Qiu felt like he might need a new pair of shoes... "Kong!" The Brown Toothed Boar probably got its hair dyed in darkness city. Its originally brown hair had become grey. Its once 2-meter tall body had shriveled to the same height as Yi Qiu. Probably after it dyed its hair, it found an elf to do a full set on it too. The Brown Toothed Boar stared at Yi Qiu with its murky eyes. It even got into a stance like it was preparing, charging toward Yi Qiu like there was no gravity at all! So quick! Yi Qiu squinted his eyes. Just as he was prepared to open the Gate of Opening, he realized something weird, the charging Brown Toothed Boar didn''t cause any mud to splatter. There was no trace of it like it was just an illusion! One must know that once the soil was soaked in that high density decomposed pumpkin liquid, it was just like a swamp. Once Yi Qiu walked past, he would leave a deep footprint. Fake? Or a Spiritual Body? It was useful for him to read the Class Legacy, at least now he could deduce whether the Brown Toothed Boar was an illusion or a spiritual body. As for the difference, Yi Qiu couldn''t remember. After all, he wasn''t really smart and he only had a rough understanding of such a concept... However, Yi Qiu remembered that the Class Legacy mentioned that he could just open Douqi Strike and hit it! Douqi Strike allowed the Monk''s strikes to be seen as Magical Weapons. Illusions and Spiritual Bodies would only be hurt by Magical Weapons! Yi Qiu''s pupils constricted: "Eight Gates, Gate of Opening, open!" Chapter 27：Since Ancient Times Spearman Had Bad Luck A burst of power surged from Yi Qiu''s body but along with it came a stabbing pain. Yi Qiu could take the pain that opening the Gate of Opening brought him. After all, he knew that his senses met the lowest requirement of Eight Gates. Integrated Network wouldn''t be so strict on its restrictions but the lowest requirement it suggested was not without reason. Although Yi Qiu didn''t really care much... He might die if he forcefully opened it, but if he didn''t open it and lost the fight he would still die, so why not just open it and try... "Kong!" The Elite difficulty Brown Toothed Boar''s roar was much quieter than that of the Easy and Hard difficulty. Yi Qiu clenched his fists and just stood there without moving. The environment was really bad. The swamp-like environment made him very uncomfortable. Fighting experience was really important. As they said, if one''s intelligence is insufficient, one''s experience will make up for it. For example, when you are doing those things with a girl, by smacking her butt she would know to change styles. But if you hit the butt of a young girl, she might only ask, "What?" So that was the importance of fighting experience, it was the same no matter which battlefield... As an average Chinese person, Yi Qiu naturally didn''t have much fighting experience. Thus, as it was his first time fighting in such an environment, Yi Qiu was stunned. Thanks to the Monk''s Stillness of Mind, Yi Qiu didn''t panic. Instead, he was actually really calm. So, some class skills might seem average but in reality they might come in handy. For example, a Wizard''s Stop Time, while it may seem strong, in reality... it was even stronger! Not only was it strong, but it was very practical, even creating a new era... The Brown Toothed Boar got closer and closer to Yi Qiu. Yi Qiu prepared to block as he was unsure whether the pepper spray would be useful. After all, if it was an illusion, the pepper spray definitely wouldn''t do anything. Hence, Yi Qiu prepped the Fist of Awe. He was Monk Level 4 and each level up would allow him to use it once. Thus, he could use it 4 times a day. But it was different from DND where he could use it all at once. Based on his sensing, each time he used it, he would need to wait another 3 hours to use it again. This time had something to do with his senses. The higher it was, the shorter the cooldown time. Of course, this was the same as the lowest requirement of Eight Gates, he could forcefully use it, however, he would just need to bear with the negative effects. In the case of Fist of Awe, as long as his senses were high enough, he could use Flurry of Blows to instantly use 2 Fist of Awes. However, if his senses weren''t enough, even before the enemy was stunned, he might just stun himself. Yi Qiu felt that if he could depend on Reflex Dodge to avoid, he would backstab the Brown Toothed Boar. If he didn''t dodge, then he would use Fist of Awe. Even if he flew backward, he would still have slowed it down. 100 meters... 90 meters... 80 meters... ... 30 meters! 20 meters! 10 meters! There was no wind and no sound at all! Like a real 3D projection, the Brown Toothed Boar charged right at Yi Qiu at a very fast speed! "Yiku!" Based on what a martial artist master once said, when he attacked he should shout to give himself an attack buff. The most common ones were "Hasaki", "Yiku" and "Yamatei". When the Brown Toothed Boar struck him, Yi Qiu felt like he couldn''t dodge it! So he hollered and smacked its head with his right hand! "Pu!" Yi Qiu''s fist struck the Brown Tooth Boar! Fist of Awe! Yi Qiu felt that his fists didn''t hit a physical body. It was like he had smacked a ball of jelly! He felt like he couldn''t use strength. However, Yi Qiu''s right hand''s original pale white light became really thick! Level 1 Douqi Strike! "Peng!" The jelly feeling instantly became much fuller! Yi Qiu''s right hand smacked the head of the Brown Toothed Boar! But the Brown Tooth Boar just halted momentarily before continuing to charge! Right as it was about to hit Yi Qiu, it passed through! Like it was just an illusion! "Si!" He felt a hard to describe feeling as the Brown Tooth Boar passed through him. It was like a low-temperature current passed through, sucking away the heat in his body and his soul, leaving him powerlessness and cold. He couldn''t see any visible injuries but when he looked at his life value, it dropped by 30%, almost the same as the damage done by the Sadistic Dog-Head Man''s Fireball Technique! The Brown Toothed Boar wasn''t injured at all, the area that Yi Qiu had hit seemed to be undamaged! Yi Qiu didn''t expect Fist of Awe to be useless. This was because when Yi Qiu flipped open the Newbie Manual, he remembered that many places mentioned that Fist of Awe had priority. Especially since he had 12 points in senses, he should have crushed the Brown Toothed Boar. There was only one explanation which was that the Brown Tooth Boar was immune to control attacks like Fist of Awe! Yi Qiu squinted. He noticed a key point: Brown Tooth Boar became a little blurrier, yes blurry. It was like a picture''s visibility level dropping. Yi Qiu naturally didn''t rely on his 10 points of intelligence but his senses. Of course if you want to say that he guessed, actually.. that was right too! Senses were just so unreasonable. It was the lucky star of students who weren''t smart enough, especially when the questions were all multi-choice ones. So having more senses was good too. Then you could be the person who... died the fastest in horror films. Yi Qiu didn''t know whether that meant that the Brown Tooth Boar was injured, but he was sure that his attacks were effective! After the Brown Toothed Boar brushed past, his body felt stiff and he didn''t dare to move randomly. He didn''t experience swamp combat before and had never fought with illusions. The ineffectiveness of Fist of Awe and the weird attacks of the Brown Toothed Boar also made him suffer. But so what? Yi Qiu squinted his eyes, the Hard difficulty was slain by him in 3 hits. Although one of them was a critical hit, it was enough to show that his damage was really explosive. The Elite difficulty Brown Toothed Boar became an illusion, the illusionary body was enough to raise the difficulty of the dungeon by 1-2 levels. Which meant that the stats of the Brown Toothed Boar were the same as the Hard difficulty one, even lower! This meant he needed at least 4 hits! Thinking about it, Yi Qiu tossed the javelin by his waist. Since ancient times spearmen had bad luck. He hoped that he would be a bit luckier! "Kong!" The Brown Toothed Boar made a huge turn, roaring with rage as it charged toward Yi Qiu once more! Chapter 28：Rip Into Pieces! "Peng!" Yi Qiu''s right fist hit the head of the Brown Tooth Boar first and gave out a low thud sound! Level 1 Douqi Strike allowed Yi Qiu''s fist to hit the Brown Tooth Boar head-on. It also protected Yi Qiu''s right hand, preventing it from being invaded by the illusionary body. The Brown Toothed Boar slightly stopped after it was struck. Although the illusionary body was able to totally dodge non-magic weapons and its attacks could steal life, but it was also unable to gain movement speed from charging. Like its name, it was just an illusion, its weight in the material world was zero. Even if the Brown Toothed Boar weighed a few hundred kilograms, once it became an illusion, it was pretty much zero. The weight and size from before wouldn''t influence anything. This was why although it charged from a distance, there was not much momentum. It also wouldn''t be affected by the material world. Thus, the attacks from the illusionary body would not have any kinetic energy effects, if you felt any, then it would be a Spiritual Body. Spiritual Bodies could turn into physical bodies and at that moment, you could hit them with normal weapons. But when they turned into Spiritual Bodies once more, normal weapons would become useless once more. The reason why Yi Qiu was able to make it stop wasn''t because of his strength but because of the power of Ki. When Yi Qiu''s Monk level reaches 10, his Douqi Strike would make his unarmed attacks turn into order weapons, filled with strong order power. It would have added damage to enemies who used chaos as their attacks. Chaos and order were like water and fire, light and darkness, opposing elements! In the Faerun Universe, order and chaos turned into a bloody war, billions of demons and ghosts fought in it. Legends would end here and gods would die too. The fight between order and chaos was one of the most eternal battles of the Duoyuan Universe. It wouldn''t rest nor stop, it existed in the past, it would exist in the future and it would never be wiped out. Yi Qiu''s Douqi Strike only had a bit of power of order. Class skills didn''t come from nothing and they wouldn''t suddenly appear. The power just slowly accumulated and gathered in him. For example, although Yi Qiu didn''t know Mixed Energy Body, he could try to use Ki to heal himself. That was because healing itself was something that Ki possessed. For example, a guy who never had sex before (skill not learned) but he had theory and ability (met the requirements), although it may look like he didn''t know how to (never appear in the skill bar), he might not end quickly the first time he did it (trying to use an unlearned skill). As long as he had enough practical experience (class and level reaches requirement), he would behave like an experienced person. (Skill would appear in the skill bar) Hence, Yi Qiu''s Monk might be Level 4, not reaching Level 10 but his Douqi Strike still had the power of order. A skill or effect didn''t come from nothing, one had to have foundations in it. When it showed itself, it was only because it had fully grown. For example, bamboo, people are curious about how bamboo shoots become bamboo in such a short time. What they don''t know is that bamboo roots take a long time to grow and slowly suck in nutrients. When people dug them up and saw the details, they would know it all, they would then notice... bamboo shoots taste quite good! (....) ... ... ... Taking this opportunity, Yi Qiu used Flurry of Blows! Yi Qiu''s leg instantly killed the Brown Toothed Boar! "Peng!" Successive attacks! After a low sound, the Brown Toothed Boar''s body became even more unclear! "Kong!" After the Brown Toothed Boar gave out a painful roar, it instantly passed through Yi Qiu who had stood still after launching his attack! "Si." The first time the Brown Toothed Boar passed through Yi Qiu, he felt endless amounts of cold, like he was frozen. This time, it felt like he drank boiling water, the intense burning feeling made his muscles twitch! Yi Qiu bore with the pain as he turned around and faced the Brown Tooth Boar. He looked at his Life Value and he had only 15% left! It was impossible to open the Gate of Healing now. He stared at the Brown Toothed Boar, his Life Value was at an alarming level. He felt that his vision was starting to become blurry. The intense pain wrapped around him but with his 12 points in senses, he didn''t faint! His heartbeat became even quicker. He felt as if his whole body was boiling, there were many huge beads of sweat appearing on his shining head. Yi Qiu knew that this strike would decide his life or death! Yi Qiu squinted. He actually enjoyed this feeling, the stimulating feeling of living life on the edge! "Hu, friend do you know?" Yi Qiu panted with much difficulty, smiling at the Brown Toothed Boar that pretty much turned into a black shadow. He was unable to control his muscles and his face seemed a little weird and ugly: "This is my third time facing such a situation." "Of course, apart from the first time, I am sure that I won''t really die." "Facing death is really a scary thing, even if you know that you won''t die." "The first time I opened my eyes and looked at the black clouds covering me, I clearly smelled the scent of death." "Yes, the scent of death, filled with decomposition, weakness and despair!" "When I was dug out from the ruins, I swore!" "I will never smell such a thing, I will rip! It! Into! Pieces!" After saying this, Yi Qiu who had stored up strength was like a furious lion as he charged at the Brown Toothed Boar. His high speed caused his body to become a blur. The mud-like soil on the ground was forced aside by his huge strength, scattering all over the place! "Kong!" The Brown Toothed Boar started to charge at the same time and roared nobly! Yi Qiu couldn''t see anything clearly, his originally blurry vision became worse at that high speed. Pain began spreading from his lungs and there was a ringing in his ears. He could only rely on his intuition to attack! He gathered all of his strength into a single punch! "Peng!" ... ... ... Chapter 29：Gift from Brown Toothed Boar Time stopped at that moment: Yi Qiu''s right hand landed on the head of the Brown Tooth Boar first. The Brown Tooth Boar stretched out its left leg, like a weird spear. This was its pre-death counter-attack. However, in the end, it stopped less than 1 millimeter away from Yi Qiu. As his body was out of energy, Yi Qiu was unable to do anything. There was no sound. The Brown Toothed Boar seemed like snow that evaporated, disappearing into thin air. "You killed the Infected Brown Toothed Boar, obtained 50 Experience." "Infected Brown Toothed Boar has been recorded in your Adventure Manual." "Dungeon clear requirements met, tabulating results:" "Your evaluation in the dungeon: Near-death adventure." "You have obtained an extra 5,000 Integrated Network Experience and 1,000 Integrated Network Coins." "You obtained a base reward of 5,000 experience and 300 Integrated Network Coins." "You obtained a special card: Brown Toothed Boar''s gift." "You have obtained a total of: 10,000 Experience and 1,300 Integrated Network Coins." Yi Qiu''s consciousness started to go blurry. His lifeforce was pretty much at freezing point. However, his persistence against soul weakness made him bear with it till he backed out of the dungeon. "Will you exit the dungeon?" "...No!" Just as he was about to agree, he suddenly glanced at a golden case above where the Brown Toothed Boar had disappeared! He instantly changed his words to no! Who knew where but another surge of power came out and he used all of his remaining strength to grab that chest! "You obtained special chest: Dungeon chest of the Validated." At that moment, Yi Qiu couldn''t help but think about a sentence he had seen before: You give me a 50 kilogram brick, I might not be able to move it, but if you give me 50 kilograms in cash, not only can I move it, I can even run with it! As expected, a human''s potential is limitless... Before he chose to exit, Yi Qiu lost consciousness... Brown Toothed Boar Double Kill! ... ... ... "Ahchoo!" Yi Qiu tossed the tissue into the bin. He who was once again in the soul weakness state needed a glass of Lady Shusia''s wine. After falling unconscious, Yi Qiu died due to the Eight Gates... He who was in a state of soul weakness returned to his room and noticed that his clothes were all gone. The Brown Toothed Boar probably dirtied them, after all, his clothes were normal things and weren''t recognized by the Integrated Network. It was winter, City C was in the south. He had no heater, he didn''t even have an airconditioning unit. Hence, Yi Qiu hurriedly changed his clothes but he realized that he had caught a cold... However, he didn''t regret it. After all, Pumpkin Field Ravaged by Wild Boar would disappear forever after he completed it. If he didn''t collect that chest, it would disappear too. As for death itself, Yi Qiu didn''t care much about it, although he would still fear it when he faced it. But death itself was not scary. What was scary was facing it. Like someone getting an injection, one didn''t fear the pain of the needle but the fear of such a sharp thing poking in. Of course, if one was fast enough, then there wouldn''t be any fear. Like when Yi Qiu was killed by the Brown Toothed Boar the first time, he was stunned by the Brown Toothed Boar''s aura. He wasn''t able to fight back and was smacked, mauled in just one wave. He was totally shocked, so naturally he didn''t fear anything. Or if a girl closed her eyes and said, "Have you started?" "I finished." ... Look, you won''t fear anything at all. ... ... ... The dungeon rewards were unusually attractive. Although they would disappearing, Yi Qiu was okay with it. After all, he could get the dungeon card and with it he wouldn''t lose anything. Every week he would have a random dungeon and the monsters inside would level up along with him. Thus, the rewards would naturally increase too which was why he wasn''t worried that he had nothing to clear. Although, for the next few days he would really have nothing to do... As Yi Qiu''s two previous dungeons were Level 1: Barren Gold Mine and Pumpkin Field Ravaged by Wild Boar were totally cleared, the Level 2 Wolf Pup Cave was still on cooldown... Yi Qiu who was suddenly so free felt really uncomfortable. He was used to fighting Dog-Head Men every day and wrecking the Brown Toothed Boar. He touched his bald head, selecting his inventory. What appeared in front of his eyes were two chests: Barren Gold Mine Clearance Chest and the Dungeon Chest of the Validated. Dungeon Chest of the Validated: Origin: Clearance reward of the first dungeon. Quality: Purple Description: This is a small reward that Integrated Network has prepared for the courageous. Only by completing the final difficulty of the first dungeon on the first try will one receive this. The item from this box will definitely be of purple quality but its type is random. Obtained item is untradeable. Purple quality!! Yi Qiu touched his bald head excitedly. His dejected mood from the soul weakness was gone instantly!! In the end, he stopped his impulsive right hand. Although the item would be purple, if he opened something useless, then it would hurt. For example, a purple quality... female... wouldn''t that be just useless... The totally completed Pumpkin Field Ravaged by Wild Boar gave him a card: Special Card: Brown Toothed Boar''s gift (Purple): Origin: Pumpkin Field Ravaged by Wild Boar (Limited) Description: After use, you can strengthen your first bloodline ability (If character has at least one) or randomly ignite a hidden bloodline ability. PS: This card has only a certain chance of appearing after you complete the first dungeon, it will only appear at most once in 5 challenges. Yi Qiu thought about his bloodline ability: Prayer! Prayer (Rare): Ignite the ancient special power that is hiding in your bloodline, receiving the ability to affect fate. Effect: In the next 10 minutes, you will obtain -2 +2 luck fluctuations. Speaking of which, this bloodline ability was very useful for Yi Qiu. Yi Qiu even suspected that the Integrated Network might have chosen him because of his ability. After all, Yi Qiu had it right at the side, it appeared more special than others who relied on Bloodline Materials to get their abilities. Naturally, Yi Qiu didn''t hesitate to strengthen the ability now. "Will you use special card: Brown Toothed Boar''s gift (Purple) ?" "Yes!" "Your Bloodline Ability: Prayer has been strengthened." Chapter 30：Prayer (Mythical) "Your Bloodline Ability: Prayer has been strengthened." "Due to your bloodline model: Human, you can choose one of the following as your strengthening direction: 1. Prayer (Rare): Through long periods of igniting Bloodline Ability, one can obtain longer lasting luck value (Might not be positive). This choice is based on Bloodline Ability, born from the foundations of Prayer. 2. Sacrifice (Rare): By sacrificing yourself or some specified item to gain luck points (might not be positive), must have Living Being Bloodline Mode activated to see effect. Character Bloodline Mode: Human is a living being, requirements met, this choice is based on Bloodline Mode and human''s special stats. 3. Offering (Mythical): By offering something specified to obtain luck (definitely positive), must have human Bloodline Mode activated (Human Bloodline Mod. Human, is a human being, requirements met), this choice is based on igniting human Bloodline Ability. Prayer effect will only appear after an hour, otherwise, one needs to complete certain conditions before it will appear. Yi Qiu took a close look at the three choices: The first one was called Prayer, its effect was to increase the buff time but it needed a longer time to activate. Yi Qiu rubbed his head and thought about it. He felt like it was useless. If it was instantly activated, it was quite a good battle buff. If he met someone with higher luck than him in battle, then that would be really good, for example, he might get critical strikes. But if he got an extremely high negative value, it wouldn''t be good. The final destination was a good reference. But this couldn''t be used instantly, so he could only use it to open boxes and merge bloodlines. But Yi Qiu felt that with his hand speed, such a long time was useless. So this Bloodline Ability choice was useless. As for the second one, it looked decent, its effect was similar to the third one. Moreover, if he participated in the sacrifice, he would gain a luck buff. Although it might not be positive, Yi Qiu was not prepared to use it to fight anyway. Even if it was negative, he would just use it again. Thus, Yi Qiu made a choice: "I choose the third one!" "Your Bloodline Ability: Prayer obtained a new ability: Offering (Mythical)" "Due to an ability being born, your Bloodline Ability: Prayer has become Mythical quality." There was a sentence that was true, opening boxes might not be useful, but it might be... *Cough* Actually, with Yi Qiu''s intelligence, he couldn''t see the pros and cons of the 2nd and 3rd choices. After all, it was something he had no experience in. Education mostly from fill in the blank style teaching and logic methods were totally useless... But relying on... many years of gaming experience and 12 senses, he felt that choosing the higher quality one wouldn''t be a wrong choice! Yi Qiu never felt that he was smart, the 10 points in intelligence clearly told him that he belonged to those who if they didn''t work hard would be nothing. Thus, he chose to believe his own intuition! Yi Qiu suddenly understood why sometimes even if he didn''t understand textbooks, he could still pass English in his 4 years of University. As expected, senses saved the dumb people! ... ... ... After raising his Bloodline Ability, Yi Qiu was prepared to increase his Monk level. He now had 11,840 Experience! Yi Qiu''s current Monk Level was 4. Going from 4 to 5 required 10,000 Experience. If not for the huge rewards from clearing the Pumpkin Field Ravaged by Wild Boar, he would have needed at least half a month to get to level 5. "Raising Monk level requires 10,000 experience, will you level up?" "Yes." "Your Monk level has increased to Level 5." "Due to your physique, your Life Value has increased." "You obtained a class baptism." "Your skills have been increased: Flurry of Blows, Unarmed Attack, Stillness of Mind." "You learned Purity of Body." Name: Yi Qiu Class: Monk (Level 5) Life value: 100% Ki: 80/80 Strength:12, Agility: 10, Physique: 13, Intelligence: 10, Charm: 9, Senses: 12, Luck: 10 Bloodline Ability: ... Prayer (Mythical): Ignite the ancient special power that is hiding in your bloodline, receiving the ability to affect fate. Born ability, Offering: By sacrificing yourself or some specified item to gain luck points (might not be positive), must have Living Being Bloodline Mode activated to see effect (Character Bloodline Mode: Human is a living being, requirements met) Class skills: ... Level 5 Flurry of Blows - Accuracy increased Level 5 Unarmed Attack - Unarmed attack damage increased to 50% Level 3 Stillness of Mind - Immunity chance increased to 15% Purity of Body: Use Ki to strengthen immune system and form a protective net to be immune from illness. PS: "All other physical classes look down on Monks who use this ability to do whatever they want"- Integrated Network Forums ... ... ... ... Ki surged but it wasn''t rampant. Yi Qiu felt like he was in a sauna and it felt really hot. The coldness from before had totally disappeared. After a period of time, Yi Qiu felt that the Ki had made his body more alive. All his illnesses were taken away by the new cells. Yi Qiu''s Reflex Dodge Ki layer became much tighter, blocking outside illnesses from entering. With this inner and outer protection, it was impossible for Yi Qiu to fall sick. Unless it was a magically caused illness whereby small particles couldn''t be blocked at all, with his strengthened immune system, Yi Qiu would recover really quickly. In conclusion, Yi Qiu was immune to normal illnesses. He wouldn''t be immune from magical and supernatural illnesses but he would recover quickly. A regret was that it couldn''t cure soul weakness, however, Yi Qiu was still really happy to recover from the cold. He touched his wet bald head. As illnesses flowed out of his body in the form of liquid, Yi Qiu was drenched. After having a good bath, Yi Qiu was prepared to open the chest! Barren Gold Mine Dungeon Clear Chest and the Dungeon Chest of the Validated. Yi Qiu waited for these two chests for a long time. He used his new Bloodline Ability: Prayer, and then a notification appeared on his retina screen: "Gathering data of your realm..." "Gathering failed, gathering data of your spiritual world realm..." "Gathering success, Bloodline Ability: Prayer offerings as below: 1. Food: Offer three times the food to obtain luck value (Based on food quality, food must be validated by the Integrated Network) 2. Blood: Offering no less than 100L of fresh blood to gain luck (Based on blood quality, blood must be validated). Moreover, there is a small chance to obtain a permanent increase. 3. Treasure offering: Offer rare quality and above items to obtain temporary luck buff (Based on item quality and level). Moreover, there is a small chance to obtain a permanent increase. 4: Human offering: Offer at least 9 intelligent beings to obtain a permanent luck increase (Might result in human''s tendencies to move toward being evil)" ... Chapter 31：Luck 16 Yi Qiu touched his bald head as he looked at the offering list on his retina screen and thought about it. Food should cost the least which was why the effect should also be the weakest. But food that Yi Qiu made through the recipes would be recognized by the Integrated Network which means that stats would show up right away. Currently, Yi Qiu only had one recipe which was the juicy steak. The quality of food that he made using the recipe would definitely be much higher than those normal ones. To a certain extent they weren''t on the same level. Recipes could bring out the essence of the ingredients. The recipes in the Integrated Network were transmitted through consciousness, so they were much easier to understand than those in word form. As long as he practiced a little he would be able to replicate it. (But if one''s intelligence is lower than 5, forget about it). He needed to offer 3 types of food so he was still lacking 2. The only thing he could think about was taking real-life food and then getting it recognized by the Integrated Network. But that would require quite expensive and it didn''t feel economical. The chests he was opening this time were rarer chests, so it was better if he opened them when he was in his best state. One would only be rewarded if they put in the effort, that was something that the Dragon-Li knew very well. It knew that it needed to rub a human''s legs to obtain food. A bit of acting cute wouldn''t affect the honor of a king. As for blood offerings, treasure offerings and human offerings, Yi Qiu paid more attention to treasure offerings as he couldn''t obtain any high quality blood now and he didn''t feel that human blood was considered high quality. After all, even in local legends, only the blood of the young girls and boys were valuable. Due to the current societal situation, the blood in the blood banks were all not valuable. Yi Qiu himself fit the criteria but to offer 100L of fresh blood... Yi Qiu felt that treasure offering was more suitable... Human offerings were definitely the best but Yi Qiu had no one he could offer up. There were indeed a few dozen minions in the Barren Gold Mine, although their intelligence was a little lower, they were barely considered intelligent beings. Regretfully, the living beings in the dungeon card couldn''t be used as human offerings as they had to be living in the main space which was Earth, where Yi Qiu was living. The Dog-Head Men in the Barren Gold Mine dungeon card couldn''t come, so they were of no use. This method of raising their value was not possible. The only thing that was left was the treasure offering. Yi Qiu opened his inventory. Apart from a few pieces of gold ore and two chests, the rest were miscellaneous items. Yi Qiu had cleaned his inventory before and he did not recycle items he thought had a little value. Very quickly, Yi Qiu found an item that could be used as an offering! Wolf Tail: Origin: Withered Grass Plains Item level: 2 Quality: Black Durability: 25/25 Weight: 0.01kg Special effect: Natural Power - Desire Demon Wolf: After use, one will obtain the power of Desire Demon Wolf, Agility adjusted to 15, Charm adjusted to 15. Sink into desires: Sink into an indescribable joy, causing your senses to drop by 5 points. Due to physique, there is a chance for one to obtain a short period of stunned status or excited status. Description: A wizard made this for a female servant he liked, to allow her to fight better. Was it fight or "fight" no one actually knew. This item was Level 2 and its quality was a relatively rarer black color. Speaking of which, it was a decent offering. Yi Qiu was thinking about dealing with this item at the Duoyuan Galaxy Exchange. This item wasn''t of much use to him because after opening the Gate of Opening he would have 16 Agility and Strength, the only buff this gave him was 15 Charm. Yi Qiu wasn''t a mage, so charm was of no use to him at all... (What? You say that charm will add persuasion? Look at my fist, let me teach you what is persuasive...) A 5 point drop in Senses was fatal, after all, Yi Qiu''s Reflex Dodge, etc., skills were affected by Senses. Due to the item descripton, Yi Qiu guessed that this item was for one to have an exciting time... Cough, so those mages were people who knew how to play... "Please confirm if you will use this item: Wolf Tail as item offered, please notice that the item will totally disappear!" "Confirm!" After Yi Qiu confirmed it, there was a pale light that appeared on the tail. Yi Qiu threw it to the ground. The ground was made of brick and it could take high temperatures, so Yi Qiu wasn''t afraid of it being burned. The Wolf Tail was quickly covered by the spreading flame. Yi Qiu suddenly saw a luster of a white wolf, it glanced at Yi Qiu and howled. Yi Qiu couldn''t hear anything but looking at it, the howl seemed sad but also arrogant. In the end, the wolf disappeared in the flames. The tail totally disappeared and only a grey and white flame was silently burning. Yi Qiu suddenly understood, he needed to place his hand into the fire... Yi Qiu stretched out his right hand. He hesitated when he was about to touch it, changing to his left hand... "Hong!" When Yi Qiu touched the flame that seemed to not actually be hot, suddenly there was a loud explosion in his brain! It was as heavy as the bell of the temple but with the echoing effect in a cave. He could see ancient ancestors walking about, who turned into modern people singing and drinking... A thick ancient scroll flew passed his eyes. His Bloodline Power was implanting memories in his mind through a special method, allowing him to comprehend many things... What was the act of offering? It had many thousands of years of history... "Your treasure offering ceremony has ended, based on the item you offered, you obtained the following buffs: 1. Luck value +5 (lasting 1 hour): 2. Luck value permanently increases by 1!" Yi Qiu touched his bald head excitedly. One must know that luck was hard to raise, even free stat points couldn''t be used on luck! If it wasn''t for Yi Qiu''s Bloodline Ability (Clarity), he wouldn''t even know what his luck was. Considering his original 10 points, the permanent increase made it 11. Along with the temporary 5, he had an hour of 16 Luck! He excitedly took out the dungeon clear chest and pressed... "Will you open Barren Gold Mine - Dungeon Clear Chest?" "Yes!" "You obtained 1000 Integrated Network Coins." "You obtained Bloodline Material: Dragon Bloodline Dog-Head Man!" An eye-catching golden light shone so bright that Yi Qiu found it hard to open his eyes. After taking a look at the infomation on his retina screen, he took out the Dungeon Chest of the Validated! ... Chapter 32：Mythical Bloodline Model! The item from the chest was definitely purple quality! Yi Qiu touched his bald head and felt a little excited. Stillness of Mind didn''t really mean that he was still, in terms of excitement, as long as it didn''t hurt the body, Stillness of Mind wouldn''t stop it. Along with its level increasing, some emotions that were not strong enough, even if they weren''t negative, wouldn''t be able to pierce through the protective net of Stillness of Mind. Although the net didn''t purposely block these emotions. This was the reason why many Legend Monks looked so calm, like even if the world collapsed, their expressions wouldn''t change. In truth, it was just because the emotions weren''t intense enough. Of course, some Monks purposely cultivated Stillness of Mind, so that they wouldn''t bat an eye in front of a charming girl. Yi Qiu felt that they were probably considered totally useless in some aspects of being a guy... "Will you open the chest?" "Yes!" There was no golden light, only a pale purple light spread out from the bag and covered Yi Qiu''s field of sight! "You obtained Mythical Bloodline Mode: Cow Totem!" Some very obvious purple-colored words appeared, amongst the previous blue messages it was very apparent. The Integrated Network items and equipment were split into many different levels: Grey (Miscellaneous), White (Normal), Green (Rare), Blue (Rare), Purple (Mythical), Pale Gold (Legend), Gold (Epic) Mythical quality was only lower than Legend and Epic. Of course, Mythical didn''t mean that the item was a God Weapon, but God weapons were at least Mythical quality! However, a Mythical quality Bloodline Model... Yi Qiu rubbed his bald head and was prepared to take a look. A Bloodline Model was different from Bloodline Material and he couldn''t just randomly merge with it. Yi Qiu''s current model was human. Even if he merged with dog or pig Bloodline Materials, he was still human. After all, the materials needed to be able to merge with human blood. In a modern-day explanation, the Bloodline Model was like DNA, the Bloodline Ability was some infomation in the DNA. Merging with Bloodline Materials was like finding hidden infomation in the bloodline. If there was, then one would ignite it or strengthen it to obtain abilities. If not, then the merging would fail. Through the merger process, the DNA would have a series of chain reactions. Thus, it might result in an increase in some stats. Normal stat increases had something to do with DNA infomation (Bloodline Ability). Thus, even if one merged with many random bloodlines, as long as the bloodline model didn''t change, then the human''s main features and properties wouldn''t change. But it was totally different if one changed the Bloodline Model. The moment one did that, one would use that new one, causing the current features to change. Sometimes not only looks, sex, etc., but small changes might happen. One might directly turn from a human into a black cat. Moreover, one could merge with unlimited amounts of Bloodline Materials but only one Bloodline Model. Yi Qiu had to think about whether or not it was suitable for him. Bloodline Model: Cow Totem Bloodline Quality: Mythical Bloodline Origin: Nine Li Bloodline Type: Human-looking being Bloodline Ability: 1. Copper Skull Iron Head: Immune from beheading damage, removing the head as a lethal area, the head can be seen as a natural weapon, enjoying unarmed attack buffs. PS: This ability is the basic Bloodline Ability, one will automatically gain it when one switches Bloodline Model. 2. Totem Power: Recovery strengthening (Recovery speed will increase along with stamina at a 2:1 ratio). Magic Abilities: Flying Sand (Spell level is human level/5), Earth-Shaking (Spell level is human level/10), Sky Covering Fog (Spell level is human level/15) PS: This ability is the basic Bloodline Ability, One will automatically gain this when one switches Bloodline Model but spells need human level to reach the lowest requirement. 3. 6 Arms: Consume a certain amount of Integrated Network Experience (Based on human stats, level and ability to determine the number of arms that can form), takes 10 natural days to form an arm (each arm that grows through this ability, the time to grow another one will double), this arm is a natural weapon, enjoying unarmed attack buffs. One can at most have 6 extra arms. PS: Conditions for activating it: keywords: Multiple attacks or relevant Bloodline Material (0/1 incomplete), quick growth or relevant Bloodline Material 5 (0/5 incomplete) 4. Impenetrable: Immune to damage from normal weapons. If body has ability to reduce damage from normal weapons, this ability will turn reduce magic damage. PS: Requirements for activating bloodline: Keywords: Physical damage reduction or relevant Bloodline Material 10, must be above Level 10 (0/10 incomplete) Bloodline Evolution: When three of the abilities are activated, through merging Mythical Bloodline Model: Bird Bloodline Model to evolve bloodline to Legend Bloodline Model: Chiyou. ... ... ... ... Copper Skull Iron Head was not bad, Yi Qiu loved it. It reduced the vulnerability of the head, meaning that his overall survivability increased. After all, it was best if one had fewer weak spots. As for Totem Power, Yi Qiu felt that it was practical. Yi Qiu didn''t know what the spell effects were but strengthening recovery was practical. As for 6 Arms, Yi Qiu felt that it was a problem. After all, it would be weird to have 6 more arms, however, they were all considered natural weapons. Which meant that he could buff them with Douqi Strike. Yi Qiu touched his head. Thinking about how Douqi Strike could make his fists as strong as God Weapons, having 6 more arms would mean 8 God Weapons... Just thinking about it, Yi Qiu didn''t feel so conflicted anymore... Impenetrable might sound really low like someone just bragging but its effects were unexpectedly strong! Being immune from normal weapons meant that Yi Qiu could ignore all sorts of common weapons. But if he faced things like big mushrooms, he wouldn''t be strong enough. After all, the big mushroom dealt so much damage. Being immune from basic weapons meant that one would be immune from the first layer, but the high temperature in the next layer would require one to have fire resistance. But the penetrative radiation would be hard to block, even though it wouldn''t do as high damage as the first two. But if one didn''t have much resistance, one would get radiation poisoning, resulting in death. Once Yi Qiu achieved Diamond Body, his immunity would be sufficient. This meant that once he got the Impenetrable Bloodline Ability and raised his fire resistance, he could block the most fatal human weapon! It was quite exciting thinking about it. Although it was tough to gain heat resistance from nuclear weapons, at least there was still some hope. If he could block nuclear weapons, Yi Qiu felt like he could do anything he wanted on earth! He... wanted to lock those authors who updated their chapters once a day, if they didn''t upload he would starve them. And he would capture all the game developers and make them farm for items that they said would definitely be dropped from mobs. If they didn''t get the items, then they wouldn''t get food either! Chapter 33：Changing Bloodline Model He thought about it for half a day and finally decided to change to the Cow Totem Bloodline Model. He was a practical person, he didn''t feel that he had to keep to his own race. As long as it didn''t affect his life values or what he knew of the world, naturally he focused on practicality. Of course, gender was also his bottom line... Although he didn''t often make use of it, he couldn''t afford to lose it just because of this... "Please select your choice: 1. Change: Switch your Bloodline Model, original Bloodline Model will disappear 2. Merge: Absorb the bloodline ability that the original bloodline model could take in. The bloodline abilities that do not mix will disappear. After merging, the Bloodline Model will disappear." "Change!" "Due to Integrated Network Mode, this action needs 3000 Integrated Network Coins (30,000 of other modes), will you continue?" 3,000 Integrated Network Coins? Yi Qiu touched his bald head, opening his bag. He noticed that he had 3,120 Integrated Network coins, that was barely enough. "Continue!" Integrated Network Coins were earned to be spent. Yi Qiu couldn''t bear to exchange them into weapons, but he definitely would use them to strengthen himself. "Deducting 3,000 Integrated Network Coins, Bloodline Model is changing..." "Checking life vitals..." "Living Being state is: Carbon-Based Human shaped being." "Living Being State accepts Bloodline Model, checking character bloodline ability..." "Character Bloodline Ability: Strengthening and Bloodline Model is in conflict, removing this ability..." "Si." Yi Qiu''s muscles were breaking apart and forming once again. The special muscle structure due to Strengthening was being violently broken. The word Strengthening in his Bloodline Ability list was shining... Yi Qiu felt that he was about to faint! At that moment, he expressed some regret. If he knew this would happen he shouldn''t have merged with the Wild Boar Bloodline. He should have just tossed it in his inventory along with the pangolin bloodline material. As expected, if it wasn''t mutated, he should have just tossed it away! ..... ..... ..... ..... The intense pain lasted for so long before it finally dissipated. Yi Qiu laid on the ground powerlessly, his expression was one of exhaustion... "Incompatible Bloodline Ability is removed, starting to change Bloodline Model..." "Activating Copper Skull Iron Head Bloodline Ability..." Yi Qiu''s head started to glow. From the top to his neck and chest, a golden light shone from within. Yi Qiu didn''t feel any pain, just a numbing sensation. After a long while, the light scattered. Yi Qiu timidly stretched out his hand and touched his bald head. Ooo, the sensation was even better, it was even smoother. "Dang!" Yi Qiu smacked his own bald head and it gave out a sound that was similar to that of metal. "Copper Skull Iron Head activated, starting to activate Totem Power..." Suddenly an illusion appeared, a black horned bull charged toward him! "Si." Like being branded, Yi Qiu felt like someone placed a scorching red iron on his forehead! An intense scorching feeling came and went quickly. Yi Qiu touched his forehead and felt that there was now a rune marked onto it. Yi Qiu stretched his head and looked at the mirror. He could see a black colored cow-shaped totem on his forehead! "Totem Power activated, starting to load in hidden Bloodline Ability..." After the black cow totem was branded on his forehead, Yi Qiu could sense that his recovery speed had picked up. Yi Qiu''s Strength was 13 now and if he just considered the multiplier, his recovery speed was 3 times that of normal people. After the Totem Power was activated, his recovery speed was 6 times that of normal people! Along with his strength increasing the Totem Power amplification would increase. Yi Qiu seemed to have understood why in legends after Chiyou was killed by Emperor Huang, his body was chopped into pieces. If not he might have really revived... Bloodline Model had an undoubtedly huge effect. But Yi Qiu felt that the moment he reached Legend, he wouldn''t rely on Bloodline Models so much. "Hidden Bloodline Ability downloaded, Bloodline Model changed." "Your Bloodline Model has changed to Cow Totem." Hidden Bloodline Ability was the few Bloodline Abilities that weren''t activated: 6 Arms and Impenetrable, those needed him to gather Bloodline Materials to activate. After merging with the Cow Totem, Yi Qiu clicked on his inventory. The Dungeon Clear Chest gave him a Dragon Bloodline Dog-Head Man Bloodline Material. Bloodline Material - Dragon Bloodline Dog-head Man: Quality: Blue Origin: Cthuma''s Cave Keywords: Flame, Dragon Bloodline (Red Dragon) Bloodline Property: Fire (Blue), Strength (Blue), Stamina (Green) Bloodline Level: 5 Blue quality flame property, unfortunately the Bloodline Level was only 5. Yi Qiu touched his head, Level 5 bloodline meant that after merging with it, he would at most obtain the stats of a Level 5 Dog-Head Man. A Level 5 one probably wouldn''t have any strong flame spells. But Blue strength was decent. Bloodline Property''s quality referred to the area of expertise of the Dragon Bloodline Dog-head Man. For example, Blue quality strength meant that among Level 5 Dragon Bloodline Dog-Head Men, its power was especially high. It didn''t exceed the upper limit, but it was rare. So if one merged with it, one could inherit its strength. Yi Qiu touched his bald head. He didn''t have enough Integrated Network Coins, so he could only helplessly place it together with the pangolin bloodline material in his inventory. ... ... ... ... After digesting his dungeon clear gains, Yi Qiu really wanted to clear more dungeons. Unfortunately, the cooldown of the Wolf Pup Cave was not over yet. Thus, he started to flip the Integrated Network interface. He suddenly realized that on the Duoyuan Galaxy Exchange page, apart from the 100 Integrated Network Coin entry fee, there was one more line: Trading Forum! Yi Qiu clicked on it and instantly large amounts of infomation appeared on his retina screen: "The first Level 5 being appeared in your living space, Duoyuan Galaxy Exchange opened the Trading Forum." "In the Trading Forum, characters can trade with one another, entrust missions, ask help for dungeons. The Integrated Network will collect service fees for each function." "Trading Forum will release a large scale open world and many small and medium-sized wars that characters can freely join. But each entry will cost a certain entry fee. Only after entering for a certain time can a person back out. If one dies, one will directly back out but will result in 3-7 days of soul weakness." "As a reward for opening the Trading Forum, you are excused from all service fees." "As a reward for opening the Trading Forum, you are excused from 50% of world and war entry fees." Harry Has a Large Hotdog''s dungeon request: Pumpkin Field Ravaged by Wild Boar (Reparation: 500 Integrated Network Coins), Note (For the sake of 500 Integrated Network Coins and the fact that everyone has a large hotdog, America''s Harry needs your help) "Pu!" Yi Qiu nearly spat out a mouthful of hot tea... Chapter 34：For A Mans Dignity Yi Qiu wiped the floor that was dirtied by the tea while exclaiming how weird this person was. Yi Qiu had just leveled to Level 5 which meant that the forum was opened for just a day. That fellow ran into it to ask for help. One must know that calling for help would mean the two of them would form a group to enter and would face one another. Even if they could cover their identities with masks, if he had some random marking ability, it would be easy to reveal his infomation. Considering that he was from America, that was understandable. Different from the Chinese careful tradition, they were more direct. Which was why in games like PubG, the Americans were conned really badly... All of them charged forward and were backstabbed by those hiding in the bushes, causing psychological damage to those American players... Many years ago, after Xiang Yu was conned and killed by Liu Bang, the Chinese taught their children not to be so direct. He taught them that being cunning would lead to a better outcome. However, some people were just like that. Even if they knew a sea of flames was ahead of them, they would just head right in! If an Overlord hesitated, how could he be called an overlord? Yi Qiu... wasn''t that sort of person. He was just a normal person. He wasn''t afraid of death but he didn''t want to die. He wanted to last till the end of days and bring a bunch of girls to head to another world to extend the Chinese tradition. Which was why he ignored that call for help. He knew a theory, which was a line that some scriptwriter gave to Cao Cao: "Why was one''s legs the whitest? (Tsk, apart from the butt)" "As it was always hidden." Being cunning as one grows and then dealing insane amounts of damage... Be it in a game or in life, that was the secret of all the kings. ... ... ... ... Yi Qiu opened the quest list on the forum and then a bunch of infomation appeared: "This month''s large-sized open world: Azeroth (Lich King Era): World keyword: Plague, Calamity, Death, Magic Lowest entry requirement: Level 10 (Beings lower than 10 can enter but if anything happens, the Integrated Network will take no responsibility) World Entry Fee: 5,000 Integrated Network Coins (Original price of 10,000 Integrated Network Coins) World shortest entry time: 1 natural year (Don''t try to use time acceleration techniques to challenge the Integrated Network monitoring system)" ... The first thing that entered his eyes was the large-sized open world - Azeroth, this familiar but foreign world. He had used Cow-Headed Man, Xiaode, to run across each inch of land, he became familiar with all the elders especially Sylvanas in Undercity. It was worth mentioning that this was the first foreign NPC that Yi Qiu remembered... If he entered Azeroth now, he would probably have to choose to join the alliance, a territory he was foreign with. If he could see Queen Sylvanas, she would probably shoot him onto the wall... Damn, My queen! Yi Qiu touched his bald head and then continued looking. He probably wouldn''t do much in Azeroth now, those small monsters he easily killed previously would be able to instantly kill him now... "Character is Level 5, will you open quest selection function? (Service fee 30 Integrated Network Coins/month)" "Open." Yi Qiu touched his bald head. Was this Integrated Network a conman? Every added function cost extra money... "Due to character rewards from opening the forums, service fee is exempt, permanently opening selection function." "Due to character level, selectable quests are as below: For a man''s dignity: A very terrible thing happened in a quiet and secluded small town of Suren; a strong but crazy mage released an AOE (Area Of Effect) spell to change everyone''s gender. Due to the strength of the wizard, the effects of the spell would last for a year. The gender change twisted the normal lives of the town. Everyone started to discuss and search for methods to solve it. The original males were prepared to invite priests to cleanse the area but the females and some of the males objected. Now, they decided to use the traditional method of the town to solve this problem; a kilometer race! The competition details are to run a lap around the broken mountain path of the town, the winner is the one who completes it first! During that period, apart from weapons and attack spells, all methods are allowed. But flying is prohibited. For a man''s dignity, to challenge this bunch of women that want to change and those perverts who don''t want to be men! Challenge Scale: Small Challenge lowest entry-level: 5 (If one is lower than 5, won''t be able to receive the invitation letter) Challenge Entry: 50 Integrated Network Coins (Original price of 100 Integrated Network Coins) Challenge Condition: Obtain the 1-kilometer victory Challenge exit requirement: Obtain the 1 km victory or stay for over 1 natural day and one can choose to back out. The longest time one can stay is 2 natural days. Challenge specific reward: Gender change scroll Yi Qiu touched his bald head. This battle thing was really confusing but currently this one was quite simple. Now he lacked Integrated Network Coins, so he would just complete some of it. "Will you choose to accept quest: For a man''s dignity!" "Yes!" "Deducting 50 Integrated Network Coins, teleporting into battle scenario..." ... ... ... ... The familiar dizziness... When Yi Qiu woke up from that dizzy feeling, he realized that he was lying next to the entrance of a road: On the narrow path, the ground was covered in dirt, poo, and many filthy things. In the distance, there was some noisy clamor. The buildings were similar to the western houses in the middle ages. There was the smell of poo and something decomposing that wafted in the air. Yi Qiu climbed up and then realized that he was laying on a pile of dry grass. He instantly felt that he was really lucky. "Ah, so you are here. I was waiting for you, the race is about to begin!" A lady dashed out from a small alley, using her fan and smacking Yi Qiu''s shoulder: "A strong fellow. When I was young I was as strong as you!" "You are?" Yi Qiu touched his bald head. This auntie''s strength was so huge, he looked at his life value and it actually dropped by 5%! "Oh! Look at my bad memory. I forgot to introduce myself, I am the Town Head, Nakrbuduo! Welcome to Suren! For reasons that everyone knows about, the town is in a mess. As the Town Head, I hope to solve these problems sooner. I hope you can win the race and I will give you some extra rewards!" "The situation is not good. The women and those men who chose to be women invited many people: Barbic Poet Gals, Weapon Master Zhao Bingzhi, and our town''s original expert, Bouyagil!" The Town Head brought Yi Qiu past random buildings and introduced the situation. "Am I the only one on our side?" Yi Qiu asked in confusion. "Of course... Yes! You know that the guys don''t care about money, so we don''t have enough to attract those adventurers. Thank god we still have you!" The Town Head awkwardly touched her belly-like stomach. Chapter 35：Old Woman "You don''t have any other participants?" Yi Qiu stopped and asked. "Eh! Don''t mention it, these bunch of people have no balls! Er, although they really don''t have any balls now!" "In the past races, Bouyagil always won. The guys felt that even if they participated they couldn''t win against this freak. This is also why all of us worked together to gather the hiring fees! Damn! 10 years of my savings!" The Town Head looked really annoyed. Seems like he paid for a large amount of the fees. "Freak?" Yi Qiu asked curiously. "Yes, a disgusting freak. Before turning into a girl, he loved to wear dresses and wipe jam on his lips! He is the disgrace of Suren! Now that the damn mage did what he wanted, of course, he wants to betray us, giving up the little brother that his father had given him!" Town Head seemed to recall bad memories, his expression turned ugly. "Apart from weapons, can we use anything?" "Yes, prepare to cover your eyes. Just ensure that you can see where you are going. The two adventurers like you probably didn''t prepare anything. However, Bouyagil probably has sandbags or something. He is really experienced and is a schemer." "Okay, let''s go quickly, we can''t let that bunch of women look down on us!" The Town Head continued to lead the way. Yi Qiu touched his bald head. He needed a few minutes to clear a kilometer. If he used Eight Gates he might not even need a minute. As a monk, he didn''t think that anyone could run faster than him. After all this was a Level 5 map. However, apparently the difficulty was in dealing with the other participants. Among which the multi-time champion Bouyagil was one that Yi Qiu felt he had to deal with. He could ignore the Barbic Poet and Weapon Master first. Very quickly, Yi Qiu was led to the starting line. This was the other end of the dirt road. Many people were crowding around. The males and females stood on separate ends. In the middle was a person holding a heavy sword and instrument. That was probably the Barbic Poet. At his side was a person holding a long sword and carrying a spear. From his looks one could see that he was from the east. He had black hair and brown eyes and wore a long robe. He was totally different from the villagers who wore leather and cotton. On the left was a fellow dressed similarly to the villagers. That was probably Bouyagil. If he didn''t know that he was a male before, Yi Qiu felt like he was no different from normal girls. Of course, the girls in the town were all males before. Thus, Yi Qiu didn''t know how the girls in Suren dressed in the past. "That person carrying the instrument is Gals a Barbic Poet, it seems like he knows war songs. You can consider dealing with him second." "That person holding the sword is Zhao Bingzhi, he is a Weapon Master from the east. He looks like he can fight, but the race doesn''t allow weapons, so he has no advantage." "That person is the scum of our town, Bouyagil! You have to be careful, he runs really quickly, especially after having lost his balls! He is good at throwing dust. Right, did you prepare anything to protect your eyes?" The Town Head pointed at them and introduced them to Yi Qiu, one by one. "Yes." Yi Qiu took out a protective glass that he hadn''t used for a long time. After he stopped using quicklime, it had been resting in his inventory for a long time. "Very good! Brother, all our little brothers depend on you! God, I really can''t imagine living a year without my little brother." Town Head patted Yi Qiu''s shoulder and then instructed the civilians to keep quiet. "Okay, Suren villagers! This is the 135th Race! Let us use the traditional method to prove who is the real master of the town!" "Wula!" "Wula!" "Wula!" "Okay, I announce the start of the race!" "???" Just as Yi Qiu and the two adventurers were still stunned, Bouyagil started to run! "What!" Yi Qiu set off. This start was just so random. "Brother, let''s listen to a tune. I don''t want to carry this sword to run a kilometer here." Barbic Poet Gals took off his instrument and started to play a hypnosis tune! The tune was nice to listen to. However, could you imagine a strong man running while taking a small flute that was thinner than his arm, playing a gentle song? Yi Qiu couldn''t take it. He stopped and punched the Barbic Poet! "Peng!" A spear blocked his strike. However, the owner of the spear didn''t control it, it easily smacked right the Barbic Poet''s head! "Damn! I will turn both of you into meat paste!" The Barbic Poet rubbed his forehead and pulled out his sword. He then aggressively charged at the two who were fighting. "No using weapons!" The Town Head brought a bunch of big arm aunties and ran over. They forcefully took Gals''s sword and Zhao Bingzhi''s spear. "What did I say? Oh, I give up." Looking at Yi Qiu''s unfriendly gaze and shining bald head, the Barbic Poet raised his hands to give up. "Don''t try to fight a bald head when you have no weapons if you don''t want to get beaten up. The right choice is to take your weapon before coming back... Then, you can get a lesser beating"- (Barbic Poet Gals) *Scoff* "So what if I don''t have a spear, I am good at using the sword!" Zhao Bingzhi raised the sword in his hand. "No using weapons!" The aunties once again confiscated his sword. *Scoff* "I know how to use 18 types of weapons, I can use my fists and legs too." "Peng!" Yi Qiu punched. Zhao Bingzhi tried to block but was only able to block the right fist. Yi Qiu''s left fist landed right on Zhao Bingzhi''s face. Zhao Bingzhi fell to the ground... Now, only Bouyagil was left. Yi Qiu looked forward and couldn''t see Bouyagil anymore. Yi Qiu felt that the situation wasn''t right. He didn''t want to waste time, so he just opened Eight Gates. His pupils constricted and the explosive power surged once more! Eight Gates, Gate of Opening open! ... ... Chapter 36：Portable Space "Pu!" A huge hole appeared in the dirt ground as Yi Qiu''s power exploded out. The smelly dirt scattered everywhere. The men screamed and moved aside while the women patted their chests and laughed. If one didn''t know that a spell had changed all their genders, one would find the situation really weird. Although he knew it, he still didn''t feel as though it was normal. The wind bellowed! The scenery around him was now in the back of his head. Under the effects of Totem Power, Yi Qiu felt like his body was filled with energy! The physical pain was almost invisible. The more Yi Qiu ran, the more excited he felt! Pick up speed! Faster! The scenery around became a blur. The dirt on the ground which was made up of cow and human dunk exploded! "Pu" "Pu" "Pu" More holes appeared on the road. Before the water landed, Yi Qiu was already far away! Finally! Yi Qiu noticed Bouyagil running in front of him! At this moment, they were halfway! "Hu." What surprised Yi Qiu was that Bouyagil stopped. When Yi Qiu felt that he might throw a dust packet at him, he spoke: "Have you loved someone? Bald head?" "Maybe, but look at you, you don''t look like someone who will get accepted by the person you like." Before Yi Qiu replied, Bouyagil rambled on. He took out a short staff from within his shirt that looked like it was made of cow bones. Yi Qiu touched his bald head. Was he mocking his charm for being too low? When Yi Qiu noticed the staff, he had a bad feeling. He had faced so many mages recently and Bouyagil looked like one too. After all, mages like Gandalf wouldn''t use staffs to fight. Magic was never easy to deal with, even if it was low-grade. However, due to the great need for talent and resources, mages were rare. It was just that his chances of meeting one was quite high. He looked at his Luck Value and after seeing that it was 11, he retracted his gaze. "Then, let it end here. To them and you, this is just a joke, it isn''t a big thing." "But! This is my last chance to chase my happiness!" "You, bald man that has never been through love, will never understand. Unfortunately, you won''t have the chance!" ... ... ... ... Who knew when it began but a thin layer of ice appeared on Bouyagil''s body. It then spread out, a cold air in the form of a white mist covered 100 meters of the area around. Yi Qiu carefully backed off. The situation wasn''t right. From the pale white mist, he could see the ice expanding. The situation was uncertain. He didn''t want to head forward. This type of spell was hard to interrupt. At least with his current experience and strength, there was a low chance of him being able to interrupt it. If he failed, he would be at a real disadvantage. Although he was on the back foot now too, he could still fight. Finally, the ice expanded to its limit, and a huge black shadow appeared in the ice! "Peng!" Along with a loud shattering sound, the ice scattered! A giant axe appeared and a huge ox-headed man broke out of the ice! "Kong!" The Ox-Headed Man roared. Its 3-meter tall body was like a building! Compared to the Brown Toothed Boar, this fellow with his muscles and holding the axe seemed more threatening. Just as Yi Qiu''s face twitched and he thought that he was about to fight to the death with it, the Ox-Headed Man disappeared like an illusion! It was chilling. But as Yi Qiu thought that it might reappear and prepped for it, there was no movement. Yi Qiu could only continue to stare at the white mist. He definitely didn''t think that it was just to show him a 3D movie. "A mistake, in the beginning, doesn''t mean a mistake in the end. Even if it is wrong, I will make it right with my axe!" Along with that thunder roar-like sound, Bouyagil who had become huge walked out! He was originally around the same height as Yi Qiu, but now he was several heads taller. His clothes that seemed a little huge were now fitting. What surprised Yi Qiu was that he had an axe that was half as tall as a human! "Teddy told us that girls had a portable space where they could carry knives but yours was a little too much!" Yi Qiu touched his bald head. He wasn''t good with words. Thus, in fights, he just liked to attack right away and not spout any nonsense! ... ... ... ... "Pu!" Yi Qiu kicked the dirt that was frozen due to the low temperature and it was scattered everywhere. "Peng!" Yi Qiu punched at Bouyagil with a fast strike, but was blocked by the axe! After a loud smack, Bouyagil was stunned! Fist of Awe! Bouyagil''s senses weren''t high, so he didn''t struggle much and was stunned! Flurry of Blows! Yi Qiu executed monk''s attack speed advantage amazingly. In the few seconds that Bouyagil was in the stunned state, Yi Qiu first used his right leg to use Flurry of Blows to kick his waist. After realizing that, he didn''t move at all. In just 0.1 seconds, he thought about where he should hit! Taking the chance, he used his left leg to kick right between Bouyagil''s legs! "Peng!" There was the sound of something cracking. One had to exclaim that Bouyagil was lucky he had nothing there, if not, he wouldn''t have been so lucky anymore. "Ouch!!!" Intense pain woke Bouyagil up from his stunned state. But the pain from below made him cry out! Yi Qiu touched his bald head. He wanted to aim for the eyes, but Bouyagil was much taller than him. He had to jump to hit, so he chose the next best option. For most people with reproductive organs, it was an eternal weakness. It didn''t even depend on gender. That weakness existed, whether one was a 1.9-meter male or a 1.6-meter short girl. "Body... pain, how... can.. it compare to heart-ripping!" "Die!" Bouyagil''s whose eyes flushed red raised the axe, and charged toward Yi Qiu like a crazy cow! Chapter 37：Flying Sand "Peng!" The axe sliced a giant crack in the ground! As shrapnel scattered everywhere, Bouyagil held his axe and panted heavily. Yi Qiu had dodged it. He would be able to dodge such attacks even without relying on Reflex Dodge. After all, his agility after opening the Gate of Opening was 16. Although he didn''t have the relevant skills and training to utilise his agility, the basic buffs of a stat of 16 wasn''t something to be underestimated. 10 times faster than a normal person, that was on the same level as a large portion of snakes on earth. Of course, if he compared to cats... Even for cats on earth, such a level of reflex and agility was still too slow. Which was why there was a reason why cats saw themselves as the kings. In their eyes, humans were just so dumb and cumbersome, their movements were basically slow motion. Of course, to spirit bodies and illusions, the agility was useless. The attacks of the former would only cause a nerve reaction the moment it attacked, and most of the time it would be too late. As for the attacks of the latter, they wouldn''t cause any reflex. In normal circumstances, you could only use your sight to fight it or rely on your senses and experience to deal with them intuitively. ... ... ... ... "Phew, you... Such a shameless brat." "Of course, I... Someone who went against the ancestors has no right to mention this." "But, ancestors, please protect me to the end..." Level 1 Flying Sand! It was worth mentioning that Yi Qiu obtained three spells from Totem Power: Flying Sand, Earth-Shaking and Sky Covering Fog. The only one he could use now was Flying Sand. It was different from abilities like Fist of Awe that he obtained from the class system. Spells like Flying Sand that were obtained through the bloodline were cast using bloodline energy. They would become stronger as the person levelled up, but one wouldn''t be able to use Integrated Network Experience to raise the level. Due to Yi Qiu''s current situation, he could use Flying Sand 5 times. Its current level was Level 1. After using Flying Sand 5 times, he would have to wait until the bloodline energy recovered. Currently, Yi Qiu hadn''t tested the time it needed to regenerate. Yi Qiu activated the totem mark on his forehead, and the surrounding air started to shake... "Hu..." The moment Bouyagil finished his words, a storm broke out! The storm brought with it a layer of water, like a giant black demon, raising its fangs and claws and heading right at Bouyagil! "No!!!" "Xiu!" There was a sharp sound of air being sliced open as Bouyagil''s axe flew across, and his eyes were filled with despair... stuck right onto a piece of the mountain to the side. "Peng!" Shrapnel flew everywhere, some even smacked into Yi Qiu''s head, giving out a clang sound. Yi Qiu touched his bald head. Who knew that his use of Flying Sand was actually so powerful? He just wanted to use it to interrupt. After all, that fellow looked like he was about to use his ultimate. Who knew that this long-range interrupt was so strong? If it was an arrow or something, it would have been swept away. As for axes or things with high kinetic energy, he would be able to shift them off their path. The more accurately the opponent threw it, the more effective it would be. Bouyagil''s strength stat was definitely not low. At least during the first attack he didn''t gain much. His stamina was high too, even after suffering from one of Yi Qiu''s attacks, his body was still able to take it head-on. Thinking back to the sheep skull short staff, Yi Qiu felt his head hurt. Even magician classes were so strong, what about people like Gandalf? "I... am unwilling, I will... wait for you in hell!" "Hong" A weird pink flame blazed on Bouyagil''s body. The smell of chestnut appeared in the air, within it was a relaxed and tempting laugh and moan. Before Yi Qiu was able to react, a pink light shot out from Bouyagil''s left eye and hit Yi Qiu! "Suffered magic: Sex change effect, checking..." "Check success, you are immune to it." Along with the checking infomation appearing on Yi Qiu''s retina screen, Yi Qiu hurriedly touched his little brother. Thankfully, it was still as good as new... "You have defeated key character in battle: Bouyagil, deducing whether or not battle conditions have been reached..." "Check complete, you have achieved battle success conditions: Obtain race victory." "You have obtained rights to exit the battle map." "You are able to choose to exit within 1 natural day, and will not be allowed to stay for more than 1 day." "Will you exit the battle map?" "Yes!" As Bouyagil''s body became weirder and weirder, Yi Qiu decisively chose to exit the map. Time seemed to stop. Yi Qiu left the world under the vicious gaze of Bouyagil... "Successfully exited map, tabulating battle rewards..." "You have successfully completed battle requirements: obtain race victory, you have obtained a basic reward of 1000 Integrated Network Coins." "You have defeated key battle character: Bouyagil, you obtained one small battle chest, obtained an extra reward of 500 Integrated Network Coins." "Due to your level, you have obtained 1,000 experience." "You have activated Medium Battle Map: Pink Town''s Invitation, you can choose to head over when you reach Level 10. " ... ... ... ... "Hu" Yi Qiu touched his bald head. Fighting humans was definitely different from fighting Wild Boars and Dog-Head Men. When one fought other species, one wouldn''t show pity, but when one fought humans... it was more emotionally difficult. One had to be vicious to kill, as a human, compared to the dumb animals, other humans with intelligence and power would snatch their position and resources. Thus, killing other humans was the most cruel. Apart from the rare few deities, a large portion of humans wouldn''t show mercy in battles. Most of the time, there would be collateral damage. Yi Qiu wasn''t a part of that minority. He just felt that compared to the brainless Boars and Dog-Head men, humans were tougher to deal with. Although, humans did have many weaknesses... He touched his bald head and was too lazy to think about those random things. With his fighting style, he charged out and fought right away. If he could win, then he would win, if not, he would just run... Anyway, not many people could outrun him... Especially after Totem Power strengthened his stamina. Yi Qiu felt that the next time he needed to pray to his parents, he would just run over... Speaking of which, the rewards were mainly Integrated Network Coins. Through this small-sized map, Yi Qiu obtained 1,500 Integrated Network Coins. Compared to the income from the dungeon, battle maps were much more generous. It was just that there were too few battles each month. Especially small-sized ones which were even rarer. Thinking about it, Yi Qiu clicked on his inventory, he was prepared to find stuff to offer up... After all, he had enough Integrated Network Coins to merge with the Dragon Bloodline Dog-Head Man Bloodline Material... Chapter 38：Cowhead Monster Secret Dungeon After the Bloodline Ability upgraded, the cooldown time also changed. Due to the different offering types, each type had a different cooldown time. The food offering was a day, blood was 3 days, treasure was 7 and human was 30. As the effects became stronger, the cooldown time got longer. Yi Qiu touched his bald head. He realized that he didn''t have any materials for any of the offering types. This was more of a problem. If he chose treasure offering, he did have the Brass Knuckle Duster, but the treasure offering time was still not up. It was worth mentioning that the time in the dungeon and on earth was different. Yi Qiu noticed that it was roughly 2:1 ratio. Which meant that every two seconds in the dungeon was one second on earth. The battle map was even worse, practically 1000:1. Yi Qiu entered the battle map for roughly half an hour, but when he looked at his phone he realized that only a minute had passed. Yi Qiu started to suspect that as the battle map expanded, the time flow difference would get larger and larger. It was practically an infinite expansion. Which meant that after Yi Qiu entered the battle map, earth''s time would pretty much stop. Of course, time didn''t really stop. It was just that the flow of time was so short that a large portion of living beings wouldn''t be able to sense it. Thus, it gave one a feeling that time had stopped. As he couldn''t offer anything, Yi Qiu gave up on merging with the Dragon Bloodline Dog-Head Man, as merging with Bloodline Material had the biggest effect when one''s luck was high. One could merge with unlimited amounts of Bloodline Material, this was a special function of the version of the Integrated Network that Yi Qiu was in. There wouldn''t be any negative effects either. If there was a clash between Bloodline Material and body, it will only cause the effects to weaken or be totally useless. Of course, the prerequisite would be that one had sufficient Integrated Network Coins... ... ... ... ... He touched his bald head and felt a little bored. He had no dungeons left and he hadn''t met the requirements for any small-sized battle maps. Yi Qiu wasn''t interested in low-level quests. The rewards were low and took a lot of time. More importantly, the final reward was mostly charm... Yi Qiu touched his bald head and felt like he was more suited for doing practical quests... It was the 30th of the month, but Yi Qiu didn''t care much about the new year. He was not an emotional person, so he didn''t care much about the past. However, every new year''s eve, when he looked at the lights all around, he would have a bad taste in his mouth. This year was different. Yi Qiu opened his curtains. Outside, it was a rare clear sky. Every new year, the heavens would bless everyone. The sun shone on Yi Qiu''s bald head. His ordinary life was like a grey white picture in his memory, becoming one of the past, becoming something forever left in his past... Thoughts flew and Yi Qiu suddenly thought about a serious problem... He ran to the freezer and opened it, he realized that there wasn''t much Wild Boar meat left... "How unfortunate!" Yi Qiu facepalmed and felt really sad. When he completed the Pumpkin Field Ravaged by Wild Boar map, he didn''t consider the meat problem. Now that he completed it, he didn''t obtain a dungeon card, so he no longer had a meat source... Damn! His juicy porkchops! Thinking about how he had to face the problem of juicy porkchops becoming part of history, Yi Qiu felt that it was a tragedy. Foodies wouldn''t feel sad about the past, but they would feel sad about losing food. Yi Qiu felt that he needed to find food sources in small-sized battle maps. After all, he was used to eating juicy porkchops, and having none now was so unbearable. ... ... ... ... He touched his bald head as he clicked on his inventory. He remembered there was a small battle chest. Small Battle Chest: Origin: Small Battle Map (For a man''s pride!) Final reward Quality: Green (Based on battle map''s difficulty and final performance) Keywords: Unlimited Description: This is the final chest of the small-sized battle map, able to produce relevant tools according to the battle map''s level. There is also a small chance of dropping rare rewards. Yi Qiu touched his bald head. If he was able to kill that demon-like thing that Bouyagil was summoning, the final reward would be more generous. The chest could even become blue. However, green was barely good enough. If he could get a green quality item, he could just use it for the next offering. Monks were good at this, their fists were their strongest weapon and they didn''t need anything else. Unlike warriors, without weapons, their strength gap was huge. Especially extreme classes like swordsman. Although, with a sword, they could fight back everything, but without one, they would be unable to gain the upper hand in a battle. Although Monks couldn''t wear heavy armor, the training of their bodies and agile dodging made them hard to hit, even while wearing light armor. There was one weakness... Yi Qiu touched his bald head and looked at the girls passing by. His heart didn''t move at all... "Will you open the Small Battle Chest?" "Yes" "You obtained Cowhead Monster Secret Dungeon Summoning Scroll." After a pale green light, a cow leather scroll appeared in Yi Qiu''s hand: Cowhead Monster Secret Dungeon Summoning Scroll Type: Magic scroll Quality: Green Item Level: 5 Description: This is a scroll connected to the Cowhead Monster Secret Dungeon, after use you can enter it for 10 days. At the same time, you can choose to open the entrance in the trading forum and choose to collect some fees based on rule number 628. Integrated Network will collect 5% fees for the amount that you collected. Yi Qiu touched his bald head, a secret dungeon was something he hadn''t came into contact with yet. Based on the Integrated Network newbie infomation, it was a decent place and each one had its own theme. When one killed monsters or completed special quests, they would obtain huge rewards based on the theme. Usually, apart from obtaining summoning scrolls from chests, these secret dungeons would appear on the trading forums at specialized timings. This timing had something to do with the consciousness of the plane that one was in. When the plane reached a special frequency, a secret dungeon might form. The secret dungeon was unstable and would normally disappear after 10 days. The scroll was a secret dungeon which mimicked the plane frequency. Yi Qiu touched his bald head. He didn''t have anything to do, so he was prepared to take a look at the secret dungeon. "Will you activate the Cowhead Monster Secret Dungeon Scroll?" "Yes" ... Chapter 39 ... "Will you publicize the secret dungeon, Cowhead Monster Secret Dungeon, to the Trading Forum?" This infomation appeared on Yi Qiu''s retina screen. He touched his bald head and started to think about it. There were naturally some benefits from doing so. Not considering the entrance fee, after all, Yi Qiu wasn''t sure how many Integrated Network players there were on earth. He was the first to reach Level 5 which meant that he was progressing quickly. But that didn''t tell him how many others there were. Thinking about how there wasn''t much infomation about this online, there probably weren''t many. Anyway, in terms of entrance fees, Yi Qiu didn''t have high hopes for it. But even without that, there was a certain benefit. At least, he could have some understanding of the number of players on earth. It was impossible to use solo dungeons to reach Legend. For people like Yi Qiu who relied on Son of Slaughter specialty to grow, it was impossible to get to Legend without killing millions. Legend wasn''t an easy thing. It wasn''t a title that shone in gold words, but it represented the top survivors in the bloody slaughter of the world. The only survivor... ; None of the Legends got to where they were by luck. Yi Qiu took that path, so naturally he wanted to get to Legend too. Getting there required huge amounts of experience, to get to Level 6 already required 15,000. ; Without extra experience sources, Yi Qiu needed several weeks to level up. However, compared to the few levels before Legend, such Experience Points were far too little. When one reached Level 10, the battlefields that opened were the key to reaching Legend quickly. Be it the large amounts of experience one got from battles or rewards exchanged using kills, one had to go to the battlefield. Especially those chaotic ones, he would kill both enemies and his own... In a battle of thousands of millions, one person''s strength was far from enough. If he could get a few partners, he felt that it would be much better for him on the battlefield. Anyway, with the survivability and movement speed of the Monk, if his partners died he would still be able to run away... There was something even dirtier; he didn''t need to run faster than the enemy, he just had to run faster than his partners... ... ... ... ... Apart from getting a few partners, Yi Qiu''s hand was itchy... He quietly grew to Level 5 and became the first on earth. He wanted to find some other earth players to test his hand. One just had to test out their own standing... Anyway, this just made him tempted. The difference between people who were born rich and those who became rich was that the former was already tired while the latter was just starting. ; There was not much difference, like how Beijing landlords and Shanghai landlords were the same, enjoying the benefits of owning houses, but they looked down on each other and even more so on people from other places. Or like how the ancient people said that when one had a weapon, they would be tempted to kill. Toward such a mentality, the Chinese people had many examples and deep experiences. On earth, Yi Qiu''s skills were useless. He was just a nerd, if he had internet and food, he could just waste his time away at home. He did not have to move out, so naturally, he couldn''t meet those rich people snatching beauties, those hooligans playing with girls, those robbers robbing beauties, etc... It definitely wasn''t so glamorous in the Chinese world. After all, Seria mentioned that there would be darkness under the sunlight, naturally, it was the case in the Chinese world. But due to how big the place was, Yi Qiu didn''t think he would coincidentally bump into such things. As for proactively searching for those dark powers... Yi Qiu felt that with his intelligence, if he could find them, then those people were pretty much just lowly, unintelligent powers. He wanted to wait until he found an ability that could deduce someone''s degree of evilness. Then, it would be easier for him to search for dark powers. If he gathered 9 of them, he could even just offer them up. Yi Qiu didn''t feel any pressure toward offering and sacrificing these scum of society. Yi Qiu didn''t lean toward kindness or evil, he felt that people who judged others based on this were biased. There was no absolute kind or absolute evil. Yi Qiu felt that order was a strong power but too much of it would be like a chain, restricting one''s movements and even thoughts. Thus, he liked to rely on his own rules. Yi Qiu would accept everything that was beneficial to himself and wouldn''t be affected by ;all those moral talks of society. ... ... ... ... He thought about it for half a day before deciding to publicize the entrance to the public. It seemed amazing to solo the rewards of the secret dungeon, but with the hundreds of square kilometers of land in the dungeon, Yi Qiu didn''t feel like he could swallow it all. Moreover, publicizing it would not only allow him to understand the situation of the other earth players, he could even get close to them. He wasn''t that smart, an average 10, but based on the huge amount of infomation that the modern-day allowed him to access, he knew the importance of intel. Given the situation that other people didn''t know these things, to gain intel about the earth players gave him a huge advantage. Yi Qiu didn''t plan to make use of this intel to do something, he wasn''t someone to abuse his power. But if he could hide in the bush, who would be willing to make themselves open to everyone? Of course, while selecting the time he opened it for, he chose 3 days. He could allow the unknown number of Integrated Network players to clear out the outer monsters and not gain too many benefits. In terms of fees, he decided on 500 based on his own income and the battle map settings. Of course, in truth, he just touched his bald head and casually filled in 500 based on his intuition. He wasn''t a statistician and anyway 500 was a sum that he felt heart pained about, but he would grit his teeth and pay it. "Please confirm whether you would publicize Cowhead Monster Secret Dungeon for 3 days, entrance fee of 500 Integrated Network Coins?" "Yes." "Secret Dungeon: Cowhead Monster Secret Dungeon has been publicized on the forums, current number of entries: 0." "Teleporting into Cowhead Monster Secret Dungeon..." Chapter 40 Secret Dungeon: Cowhead Monster Playground Secret Dungeon Challenge Level: 5 Secret Dungeon remaining time: 9 Days, 23 Hours, and 59 Minutes Secret Dungeon current number of people: 1 Number of rare monsters today: Cyborg Cowhead Monster 15/15 Current leader: Cyborg Cowhead Monster King 1/1 ¡­.Familiar dizzy feeling. When Yi Qiu opened his eyes once more, he realized that he had entered a dense forest. He was surrounded by huge trees. Although he was in the south, it was rare to see such tall trees. Yi Qiu didn¡¯t know the difference in the type of trees, especially these which didn¡¯t bear fruit. He could only differentiate the common ones like pine trees, cedar trees, and banyan trees. But Yi Qiu had totally no recollection of the many weird trees in this forest. Sunlight shone on the dense canopy and only a thin bit of sunlight came through. If not for nearly stepping on an unknown pile of dung beside him, Yi Qiu felt like the scenes in front of him was like a fairy tale¡­ As expected, fairy tales were all lies¡­ He forced himself to shift his gaze from that pile of things that looked suspiciously like dung and he clenched his fists. From the size of the dung, this Cowhead Monster was probably really huge. Of course, it might be the dung of some other being in the secret dungeon. No matter what it was, it was probably quite huge. He touched his bald head and carefully followed this path that was opened up by an unknown large being. ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ On the other side, Lie Fu felt a little troubled. As a retired soldier, although he had already formed his own family, he was addicted to handiwork. This annoyed his wife. But that wasn¡¯t the source of his troubles. In truth, out of the few lucky ones that were chosen by the Integrated Network, Lie Fu was one of those with the highest quality. Be it grasping fighting techniques and gun skills or Russia¡¯s relatively relaxed weapon restriction, Lie Fu had a huge advantage. But all of this was ended by Lie Fu¡¯s first dungeon monster, it was a Giant White Bear. If he used his M1891, he was confident he could kill it. But as someone who loved WOW and since his class was a warrior that he loved, Lie Fu felt that he had to slay the Bear with his sword to be considered honourable. If he relied on guns to take it down, even if he placed its large head in the living room, he wouldn¡¯t be proud of it. His partners would only say that he was lucky. But if he relied on his own sword to slay this White Bear, then just thinking about their looks of disbelief made him feel like his chest hair was on fire¡­ He drank a mouthful of vodka before thinking that he had to continue to strengthen his sword techniques. While in the military, the fighting skills that he trained in, although he engaged in cold weapons training, it didn¡¯t include swords. Lie Fu¡¯s skills with swords were due to his personal interest, naturally, it wasn¡¯t of much use in practical combat. Although the warrior skill list had mastery of the weapon, but it was awkward because it wasn¡¯t something one naturally learned. After all, each person chose a different weapon, so one¡¯s grasp of that weapon was based on one¡¯s choice. Azeroth¡¯s warrior system focused on skill warriors that used rage as their foundation. The key was the various skills that didn¡¯t rely much on the weapon itself. Lie Fu liked this simple style. He was unable to understand those complicated ones like fencing, even if his other friends did not agree. But Lie Fu liked things to be simple and direct. Like this two-handed sword that he made himself, it was something he loved the most. Of course, this wasn¡¯t the version he liked the most. The one that he loved the most was already lost in the dungeon. Because he didn¡¯t understand at first, the sword was tainted by the blood of the monster in the dungeon. It was not verified by the Integrated Network and was left forever stuck in the dungeon. This made his heart ache. He even didn¡¯t wash his chest hair for several days¡­ Which was why Lie Fu hoped to raise his sword skills now. He searched on the Integrated Network for a long time, just as he was thinking about exchanging for a really brutish Cross Sword Technique, he noticed a new golden notification on his retina screen: ¡°Cowhead Monster Secret Dungeon is open for a limited time, please check the details in the trading forum.¡± Trading forum? Lie Fu downed another mouthful of vodka. He remembered that it was something that came out yesterday. Apart from a certain idiot, no one spoke a word. However, as for a secret dungeon, Lie Fu felt interested in it. ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ Miss Emma was on holiday in Hawaii. She was someone who was very intelligent from a young age; after growing up she entered Cambridge Medicine, and then graduated to obtained a doctorate. Emma never doubted her intelligence, but while trying to learn magic, she faced a huge setback. She spent a full week but had zero progress in a simple Level 1 magic model¡­ Thus, when the golden words appeared, she chose to ignore them.. She didn¡¯t have the time to bother with the secret dungeon¡­ She had to prove that a wizard didn¡¯t need to rely on bloodline ability to learn magic¡­ ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ Mexico¡¯s Harry wasn¡¯t annoyed at all. After being selected by the Integrated Network, he relied on the inventory to ship drugs, allowing him to become the head of the local drug trafficking group. With money and power, Harry was addicted to the joy of drugs and sex. Of course, he didn¡¯t totally give up on Integrated Network. After facing the infected Brown Toothed Boar, he shot all his bullets but was still killed by it. Harry who was in the soul weakness state felt really uneasy. After realizing there was a trade forum, he tried to ask for help. However, till now no one replied. He locked himself in his safe house, and he was prepared to wait for the soul weakness to end before making plans. He felt like if he couldn¡¯t rely on an AK, he would use an RPG. As for class legacy etc., he didn¡¯t even bother to look at it. If he had such time, wouldn¡¯t it be better to take some drugs? Harry wasn¡¯t planning to expand his drug power. He was satisfied with his current life. He was planning to find ways in the Integrated Network to increase his lifespan to enjoy¡­ After the golden words appeared, Harry patted the butt of the beauty beside him. In his terror-filled eyes, the beauty pulled out a blade¡­ ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ Some island. ¡°Cowhead Monster Secret Dungeon is open for a limited time, please check the details in the trading forum.¡± ¡°What?¡± ¡°Nothing, let¡¯s continue to train!¡± ¡­ Chapter 41 ¡°Integrated Network players dead: 1¡­ Remaining players in plane: 4¡± Just as Yi Qiu was carefully exploring the path opened up by an unknown large-sized being, a black notification appeared on his screen. 4 people¡­ Yi Qiu touched his bald head. Although he expected that there weren¡¯t that many players on earth, counting in that unlucky person who died, the total had just reached the minimum number of players. Earth had over 7 billion people but only 5 players, this ratio meant that Yi Qiu himself was really lucky. Who knew whether or not there would be new players added in subsequently. Yi Qiu shook his head and didn¡¯t worry about such things. He could only work hard to improve himself. As long as he became strong, the changes in his environment wouldn¡¯t affect him. The forest was really quiet. If normal people walked here, their heads would feel numb and terrified, but not Yi Q.iu Maybe he did, but those emotions were directly stopped by Stillness of Mind. He followed the dark path and quickly found the first monster: An axe-wielding Cowhead Monster! It wasn¡¯t as huge as the illusion Yi Qiu saw in the battle map, but it wasn¡¯t small. Its 2-meter frame didn¡¯t scare Yi Qiu much as after experiencing the Brown Toothed Boar, monsters of this size didn¡¯t scare him anymore. But just that close to a meter-long axe made him feel like it wasn¡¯t going to be easy to deal with. Yi Qiu just felt like he had to fight it first to test out the situation. This Cowhead Monster was holding its axe and resting while laying on the nearby tree. It was snoring softly, that sound didn¡¯t seem like something that should have come from something of its size. Yi Qiu squinted and he was prepared to open Eight Gates right away. If he couldn¡¯t defeat it using Eight Gates, then he could only make a strategic retreat. ¡°Peng!¡± Just at that moment, a gunshot sounded! That one shot seemed like an opener, like fireworks, more and more broke out! ¡°Kong!¡± The entire forest seemed to have been enraged as roars spread out from the depths of the forest! Yi Qiu glanced at the secret dungeon information and realized that there were now two people inside. ¡°Kong?!¡± The sleeping Cowhead Monster was awakened by the gunshot. After roughly 2 seconds of being stunned, it looked around with its big eyes. As expected, it noticed Yi Qiu. After all, even under the dim lighting, a bald head still attracted a lot of attention. ¡°Kong!¡± The Cowhead Monster raised up its axe and charged frantically at Yi Qiu. Looking at the sprouts and branches beings smashed by it, Yi Qiu knew how this monster opened up this small path. Its cow hoof leg structure allowed it to be able to better spread out the heavy downward force of its body. Due to that structure, the momentum that it gained while charging was really terrifying. Yi Qiu squinted and started to rotate the Ki in his body. Eight Gates, Gate of Opening open! Invisible Ki gathered on his head. His pupils squinted and a huge power surged within his body once more! ¡°Xiu!¡± He ran quickly as the air became less friendly. Be it the obstruction of the air currents toward his body or the roaring in his ears, it made him feel really annoyed. Yi Qiu realized that he loved this kind of feeling of tossing everything aside, and courageously charged toward the enemy! Be it a 2-meter tall wild boar or an axe-wielding Cowhead Monster, he wasn¡¯t fearful. His blood vessels were roaring, his muscles were roaring, and his high speed flowing blood transported power for him for the impending battle. The green veins that popped up were like flying dragons, all of this was for his upcoming strike! ¡°Peng!¡± Like two unstoppable forces crashed into one another, 1.65-meter Yi Qiu and 2-meter Cowhead Monster smashed into one another! ¡°Hu!¡± The pressure from the two seemed to form its own air current, causing the leaves and branches around to tilt. Yi Qiu was forced several steps back. The ground which was trampled on for years by the Cowhead Monsters, and became really sturdy now, had many deep marks. The Cowhead Monster didn¡¯t move back, but its hooves sunk deeper into the ground. ¡°Kong!¡± Yi Qiu didn¡¯t stop, he stood still and then started to charge at the Cowhead Monster once more! During the first try, Yi Qiu could sense that the Cowhead Monster wasn¡¯t that much stronger than him. At most, there was a 1 stat point difference. The reason why it wasn¡¯t forced back was because of its body structure. Due to the advantage of the long weapon, the axe hit Yi Qiu first but it sliced his neck! ¡°Peng!¡± After the sound of metal clanging, Yi Qiu¡¯s fist smacked the monster¡¯s waist! ¡°Kachi!¡± It was like something was breaking. Due to the removal of the Strengthening skill and Yi Qiu not wearing a weapon like a knuckle duster, his attacks were pure attacks. Pure attacks didn¡¯t cause piercing damage and blood to splatter, but the internal damage it caused wasn¡¯t weaker than pure attacks. The Cowhead Monster gave out a pained expression. Yi Qiu didn¡¯t hesitate and punched once more using Flurry of Blows! Crit! 5% crit chance wasn¡¯t high, but it wasn¡¯t low. Due to the frequency of it happening during each battle, the crit chance Yi Qiu received was quite optimistic. His muscles and body were in harmony, and his fist smacked into the Cowhead Monster with a sharp wind howl! ¡°Pu!¡± As it was pure damage, Yi Qiu¡¯s fist didn¡¯t directly pierce through the body, but this didn¡¯t mean that the damage was much lower. The skin of the Cowhead Monster started to turn blood red and it started to vomit. Its intestines along with black blood caused the ground to change color. Yi Qiu frowned. Long before, when it started to look like it was going to vomit, Yi Qiu had moved behind. ¡°Kong!¡± What surprised him was that after vomiting, the Cowhead Monster seemed better, picking up the axe and slashing toward Yi Qiu. ¡°Peng!¡± Another metal clang sounded. Yi Qiu launched a kick, sending it to the ground! ¡°Pu!¡± The 2-meter tall being fell to the ground and dust flew up. This Cowhead Monster didn¡¯t seem to have any fighting strength left. Yi Qiu kicked its head and ended its life. ¡­ ¡­ Before he was able to see the notifications on the retina screen, he heard the explosion sounds getting closer! Chapter 42 ¡­ Yi Qiu touched his bald head. Due to the branches and bushes all around, he was unable to see what had happened in the distance. Thus, he decided to first look at the few notifications on his retina screen: ¡°You have killed Secret Dungeon monster: Abandoned Cowhead Monster, obtained 1 Secret Dungeon point.¡± ¡°Secret Dungeon points can be used to exchange for items in the Secret Dungeon shop. The shop will last for 1 natural day.¡± 1 Secret Dungeon point, it seemed like this monster was at the bottom of the Secret Dungeon food chain. Even then, after Yi Qiu opened up the Gate of Opening, it still had comparable strength and stubborn life force, this showed that the monsters here were hard to deal with. As he thought about it, Yi Qiu realized that the explosion sounds were getting closer and closer! Apart from a road that was opened up by Cowhead Monsters, there weren¡¯t any other paths. At least till now, Yi Qiu had been moving with much difficulty. Yi Qiu touched his bald head. He was prepared to take a look before deciding whether to retreat. Anyway, he ran really quickly¡­ Finally, along with the sound of footsteps, a white man carrying a submachine gun and wearing a colorful vest turned a corner¡­ ¡­ When the two of them noticed one another, they were both stunned. When Yi Qiu saw the gun his muscles tensed up, and his bloodline power was about to be activated. As long as that guy was prepared to attack, he was going to use Flying Sand on him. Yi Qiu had deactivated Eight Gates. Although he consumed some life value, due to his exceptional recovery speed, he had mostly recovered. The man didn¡¯t raise up his gun, instead, he aimed at the ground. Just as he was about to say something, the roars got closer. The ground was even shaking a little. The male did a hand sign and then hurried over. Yi Qiu understood. What followed behind was a Cowhead Monster, then a second, then a third¡­ What did he even have to think, just retreat¡­ Yi Qiu increased his speed and ran, a Monk was never the class to face many enemies at the same time. At least it was the case for Yi Qiu. However, Monks also had some strong AOE attacks. In the skill list of Monks, he just needed to consume experience to learn them. ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ ¡°Hu.¡± Yi Qiu panted. He looked at the white male behind him and felt that a bald head was good, at least it could reduce wind resistance¡­ They had already ditched the Cowhead Monsters. They were probably at the border, on one of the small hills around. At this place there were fewer bushes, but there was more of an unknown wild grass that covered the hill. On it were some white flowers. If one didn¡¯t consider the threat from the Cowhead Monsters, this was a good place to travel. After all, compared to the forests on earth that had many bugs and snakes, the forest here had nothing other than Cowhead Monsters. Yi Qiu found it weird at first, but now he was used to it. After all, snakes and insects were a huge problem. ¡°Hu, hu, the silencer seemed totally useless. What was that.¡± The white male calmed himself down, taking out a glass bottle with alcohol inside and he took a gulp. He then tossed it at Yi Qiu. ¡°Beluga, Transatlantic Sailing Competition Version, my favorite.¡± Yi Qiu caught it and took a sip. It was like he had swallowed a ball of flames, and it was extremely bitter¡­ Yi Qiu had never drank such an intense alcohol. He actually rarely drank, but he didn¡¯t want to lose face. Although his stomach was burning, he didn¡¯t spit it out¡­ He then tossed it back expressionlessly¡­ What was worth mentioning was that this was a scene that was made possible by the Integrated Network. The Integrated Network had its own language translator. Even if he was talking in Russian, when one heard it, one would understand right away. At the start, Yi Qiu had no idea. In the battle map he noticed it. Although the Integrated Network didn¡¯t prompt him, after being able to understand what the Town Head was talking, he started to search the Integrated Network Newbie Manual and he found a description regarding it. However, such translations were only useful for the same species. Once one became a different species, apart from the new language, one would still remember all the previous languages. Simply put, one was a human before this. In the Integrated Network, as long as a human spoke, no matter what was said, as long as it was human speech, one would understand it. When one became a black cat, in the Integrated Network, one could still enjoy the languages, capable of understanding just as if one was a human. Due to one¡¯s new species, one could understand all cats too. ¡°Lie Fu, Russian retired soldier, what about you? Bald head?¡± Lie Fu pressed onto the gun and sat on the grass, grabbing the bottle and gulping down once more. ¡°Yi Qiu, I¡¯m Chinese.¡± Yi Qiu sat on the ground too, the two had a dozen meters separating them. ¡°We are quite near, all on the same continent.¡± Lie Fu put away the alcohol and then started to investigate the silencer. ¡°Maybe next time you can say that we are from the same planet.¡± Yi Qiu squinted, using Ki to speak. ¡°You are the first to reach Level 5 right.¡± Lie Fu checked the silencer but didn¡¯t find anything wrong. He then rested it on his gun and suddenly asked. ¡°Maybe, who knows?¡± ¡°Oh, since I learned how to charge, my few partners couldn¡¯t make me happy anymore, do you want to spar?¡± Lie Fu took down the silencer and then kept the gun into his bag. He then took out a sword. ¡°Ashkandi?¡± Yi Qiu couldn¡¯t help but ask after finding it really familiar. ¡°Wow! I didn¡¯t think I could meet an ally here, which tribe and alliance are you from?¡± Lie Fu stood up and stuck the sword to the ground. He unbuttoned his vest and revealed his dense chest hair and asked. ¡°For the victory of Sylvanas!¡± Yi Qiu touched his bald head and replied. ¡°Wow! Then, it is really worth a battle! Wait for a moment¡­¡± Looking at Yi Qiu who was quite tempted, Lie Fu thought about something. He did a pause action to Yi Qiu and then took out a flag with the tribe mark on it. ¡°Now, this makes it better. How can a WOW spar not have war flags!¡± Lie Fu walked to the middle and stuck the flag in the ground. He then went back to pick up the two-handed Ashkandi sword. ¡°Then let¡¯s begin¡­¡± ¡­ ¡­ Chapter 43 ¡­ Yi Qiu squinted his eyes slightly. He was thinking about whether or not to open Eight Gates. After all, this person had been through military training and his stats should be relatively higher. However, considering that he had been through several bloodline material mergers, and the Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique strengthening, his stats shouldn¡¯t be too much weaker. After all, the stats of the Integrated Network weren¡¯t as common as that of other games, they were very precious. Hence, if he didn¡¯t consider stats, but just bloodline material, and his own cultivation, Yi Qiu felt like he had a chance of winning. After all, a weak foundation meant that one would improve more quickly. Lie Fu raised the sword in his hand and moved slowly around Yi Qiu while he just stood on the spot. ¡°Xiu!¡± Suddenly, without any sign at all, Lie Fu accelerated and charged in front of Yi Qiu! Warriors skill: Charge! ¡°Peng!¡± Yi Qiu instinctively punched forward, landing on the door-like sword. ¡°Xiu.¡± Yi Qiu was forced back several steps from Lie Fu¡¯s momentum, but after stumbling back he managed to stabilize himself. ¡°Hu.¡± Lie Fu didn¡¯t chase for the victory, just standing there and calming his breathing. It seemed like that charge consumed a large amount of energy. Yi Qiu waved his right hand that was now a little sore. With Level 1 Douqi Strike, he didn¡¯t fear to slash against normal weapons. That attack allowed him to acquire a basic understanding of Lie Fu¡¯s stats. At least, in terms of strength, he wasn¡¯t higher than Yi Qiu; he was even slightly weaker. Before Lie Fu recovered, Yi Qiu raised his fist and charged forward! ¡°Peng!¡± Yi Qiu¡¯s right fist clashed against Lie Fu¡¯s sword once more. However, this time Lie Fu didn¡¯t have the help of the momentum, and the sword that he waved using his own strength didn¡¯t shock Yi Qiu at all. Flurry of Blows! Due to the cooldown time of Fist of Awe, Yi Qiu didn¡¯t use it. He just used a normal Monk strike. Yi Qiu¡¯s left hand turned into an afterimage that Lie Fu couldn¡¯t react to. Even if he could, he wouldn¡¯t be able to block it. After all, a sword might be strong, but if one got close it would be cumbersome. ¡°Peng!¡± It wasn¡¯t a good feeling for one to be defeated in height. As a Russian, Lie Fu was 1.8 meters, close to 1.9 meters. Yi Qiu had to jump to be able to hit his head. However, the waist and lower area were more crucial to a male¡­ After all, they weren¡¯t fighting to the death, so Yi Qiu didn¡¯t hit the lethal areas. He just hit his waist as it was simpler. After all, Flurry of Blows wasn¡¯t a skill he could control and the part he attacked was random. Only when it reached Level 5 did it start to have a small semblance of control. ¡°Peng!¡± Lie Fu was forced several steps back by Lie Fu. His physique was quite sturdy as the fist didn¡¯t cause much harm to him. ¡°What a powerful fist!¡± Lie Fu stabilized himself, holding up the two-handed sword and slashing at Yi Qiu! Reflex Dodge! Just as the sword was about to slash him he avoided it and then punched forward! ¡°Peng!¡± Warrior skill: Block! What surprised Yi Qiu was that Lie Fu, with a brilliant arc, swung the sword in front of his chest to block. However, Yi Qiu guessed that the hand he used to hold the sword wasn¡¯t feeling good. Lie Fu didn¡¯t wait for Yi Qiu to move his fist away and started to add strength using his sword. Yi Qiu naturally did the same. Although Lie Fu had been through army training and his foundational stats were strong, compared to Yi Qiu who was strengthened by the Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique and bloodline material, Lie Fu¡¯s stats were no longer an advantage. Their tight muscles clashed with one another. Lie Fu opened his mouth and revealed his white teeth. Just as Yi Qiu was thinking about what that fellow was doing, Lie Fu punched toward him! Yi Qiu instinctively welcomed it with a punch! ¡°Peng!¡± Like the sound of a clock being hit, Lie Fu covered his head and retreated. Yi Qiu guessed that his eyes were in a daze, after all, from the recoil, that fellow was hit quite hard. ¡°Si¡­ blyat! Are your bones made of adamantium?¡± Yi Qiu touched his head, it wasn¡¯t his fault that his head was made of metal. Speaking of which, being short wasn¡¯t bad. After all, looking down from above, his shiny head attracted firepower. Considering that he would face large-sized or even enormous monsters, Yi Qiu was thinking about whether or not he wanted to increase his own height. Of course, that was just a thought. After all, he didn¡¯t have such an ability. He had a whole bunch of things to do now, so these other things were considerations for the future. ¡°I really can¡¯t believe it, bald head, let me reintroduce myself: Russian Alpha Ranger Member, Lie Fu-Valery-Ivanoff, my partners all call me Black Bear.¡± Lie Fu stuck his sword into the ground and reached his right hand out to Yi Qiu. ¡°Yi Qiu, I¡¯m a Chinese teen trying to find a job.¡± Yi Qiu reached out his hand and they shook. ¡°I knew that you were definitely strong. Do you want to smoke, my partner has a cigar factory, you definitely won¡¯t be disappointed.¡± Lie Fu took out a box of cigars from his inventory. It was in a simple box without any markings. ¡°No, I am used to it.¡± Yi Qiu took out a Chinese cigarette and said. ¡°What a waste, my team during my time there all smoked cigars, so I learned that. After which, I found out that the person who owned a cigar factory gave each person a box of cigars!¡± The Cowhead Monsters were all quiet now. Yi Qiu and Lie Fu sat beside the forest and smoked, it was a rare peaceful moment. ¡°Yi, do you have any thoughts. I mean after you obtained such powers, what did you think about doing?¡± Lie Fu suddenly said. ¡°Maybe¡­ Grab an author to force him to write? I didn¡¯t have much I wanted to do.¡± Yi Qiu spat out a mouth of smoke, the smoke around his face caused it to be a little hazy. ¡°Wow, you really have no plans? I thought that you would want to be a hero or something.¡± Lie Fu was surprised. ¡°Toward being a superhero, I like one of those words: The more power one has, the less responsibility one has.¡± Yi Qiu sucked in a mouthful of smoke and said. ¡°Sometimes problems will find their way over. I feel like we can form a guild or rather a small team to help one another. Think about it, if we form a party like in WOW and face a boss together, wouldn¡¯t that be quite interesting?¡± ¡°I will be the tank and you will be the damage. If we can find a wizard or a healer then that would be fantastic!¡± The more Lie Fu spoke, the more excited he became. Who knew that this old man who even had a kid had such a burning heart? Yi Qiu felt like he was a little infected. He was just 20 while that man was at least 40. He probably had a family and might have a child already. He had served in the army and saw the darkness of humanity. Who knew that he could persist in that passion, that was such a rare spirit! This was a passion that all players had. No matter how old one was, when one faced a game they could calmly say, ¡°Why not let¡¯s play one more year.¡± ¡°I don¡¯t think that it¡¯s practical.¡± Yi Qiu put out the cigarette as he said this. Lie Fu looked a little dejected. ¡°But this is interesting enough, count me in¡­¡± ¡°Wow!¡± Yi Qiu¡¯s Reflex Dodge was able to activate and Lie Fu gave him a bear hug! ¡°What do you think our party should be called? I feel like Paragon is good. As the top WOW guild on earth, Paragon seems like a good name.¡± ¡°Whatever, can you let go first?¡± ¡°Wow!¡± ¡­ ¡­ Everyone¡¯s youth will pass, but a gamer¡¯s youth will never disappear! Chapter 44 ¡­ ¡­ Yi Qiu hid in the bushes and in the distance there were a few Cowhead Monsters sleeping. Speaking of which, it was good that there weren¡¯t any bugs and insects. At least, he was able to head through the bushes. If he was in an earth forest and if he did all that, he would probably be dead¡­ Yi Qiu was studying the AK47 that Lie Fu gave him. Yes, as one of the largest produced guns in Russia, all gun collectors would have several of them, after all, they were really cheap¡­ Yi Qiu had never used a gun before, but he loved the AK47 that Lie Fu gave him. Even though guns weren¡¯t useful toward monsters, he could use them against humans¡­ Especially in the complicated environment of the city, a good shooter could delay an army. This was something that was commonplace on earth. Yi Qiu didn¡¯t want to develop toward being a gun wielder. He had dreams of flying around and changing the weather. As a Monk leveled, it would be tough to change the weather, but he would be able to fly around. At this moment, Lie Fu was already hunting in the east forest. Due to his professional nature, he noticed that the atoms in this secret dungeon was different, such that the silencer was unable to hide the gunshots. Lie Fu had given up thoughts of using the machine gun to kill the Cowhead Monsters. He was now prepared to use his sword to fight. To prevent the two of them from having a conflict, Lie Fu chose to separate from Yi Qiu. They agreed to contact one another through the trading forum. Due to the Chinese firewall and Yi Qiu¡¯s phone not having international calls, the trading forum was the only choice¡­ Anyway, Yi Qiu¡¯s service fees were free, so he agreed gladly¡­ ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ Yi Qiu spent an hour there and he started to understand the way the Cowhead Monsters lived. Every 10 minutes, 3 of them would head to the forest to feed. The rest would guard the camp. Of course, most of them were sleeping but maybe due to the gunshots, each time there would be 3 of them that were awake. The reason why Yi Qiu spent so much effort was because he noticed the eye-catching golden chest in the middle of the camp! A secret dungeon was a reward-type map, normally monsters disguised as chests wouldn¡¯t occur in such situations, unlike certain games¡­ The golden glow meant that it wasn¡¯t low quality. Yi Qiu felt that it was really promising. However the 10 Cowhead Monsters in the camp gave Yi Qiu a headache. They surrounded the chest and didn¡¯t leave any space. This tempted Yi Qiu but it made him really helpless too. Yi Qiu felt that killing one wasn¡¯t a problem, two would be tough and if he faced three he could only run. 10 would probably easily kill him¡­ Not to mention that fellow in the middle with random tubes stuck into it. Yi Qiu guessed that it was the Elite Cyborg Cowhead Monster. After all, it wasn¡¯t much taller than the rest, based the boss on who was the biggest, this fellow wasn¡¯t the boss. Yi Qiu started to think about how he could get the chest. If he couldn¡¯t beat it, then he definitely would be able to run. In addition to the aerodynamic advantage of his bald head, in terms of the Monk¡¯s ability, long-distance running wasn¡¯t a problem¡­ How to get the chest from these bunch of Cowhead Monsters was a problem¡­ Although he had already grasped the system, he wouldn¡¯t be able to handle the remaining 7. Their giant bodies formed a meat shield. It was tough for Yi Qiu to pass them. Who knew whether Lie Fu had flash grenades or smoke bombs etc. Yi Qiu shook his head, if he learned a movement technique, he could turn into a spiritual body and run right away. Why would he even be hesitating so much now¡­ Thinking about smoke bombs and flash grenades, Yi Qiu thought about his pepper spray and Quicklime. However, the pepper spray seemed useless. After all, its range was so limited and was useless against a large number of them. Yi Qiu wasn¡¯t bothered using it, after all, he would run quicker after using Eight Gates. He was unable to efficiently use the pepper spray, so he could only consider it when trying to take over a territory¡­ As for quicklime, since the low quality plastic bag broke, Yi Qiu used a large bag to wrap them all up. He kept them in his inventory for future use. Speaking of the inventory, it was really useful. Although there were only 14 boxes, if one wrapped everything together, no matter how big it was, it would only occupy one box. That was really practical. Currently, Yi Qiu didn¡¯t test out the largest size a box could store. However, it would be limited. Thinking about quicklime, Yi Qiu suddenly had a thought. As a human living in the age of infomation, Yi Qiu had a brain. He suddenly thought about using Flying Sand and quicklime together, what would the effect be? After all, when he faced Bouyagil, Flying Sand just proved that it could slightly change the wind direction, but in truth it helped to affect Bouyagil¡¯s field of sight. Although Bouyagil¡¯s flames burned the dirt from the Flying Sand, Yi Qiu felt that if he didn¡¯t combust himself, the dirt might have been able to cover his eyes¡­ Flying Sand along with quicklime would be able to reach such an effect. Yi Qiu also didn¡¯t need to be afraid of quicklime affecting his field of sight, after all he controlled the wind¡­ Yi Qiu felt that he was using Flying Sand in such a weird way. After all, Flying Sand was a relatively strong attack skill to the Chinese¡­ But in Yi Qiu¡¯s hands, it didn¡¯t reveal any power at all. Yi Qiu guessed that it was because his level was still too low. After all, the level of Flying Sand was based on his character level and since he was so low, it didn¡¯t have much of an effect. Yi Qiu took out the quicklime from his inventory. He had bought 10kg worth before and used a portion. There was probably around 9kg left. However, due to the ores provided by Barren Gold Mine, Yi Qiu was much richer now. Yi Qiu was prepared to use it all. Once it finished, he would just go to Taobao and buy more. Problems that money could solve weren¡¯t problems¡­ Yi Qiu felt that he became a little more arrogant¡­ He opened the wrapped quicklime. He wore his protective glasses, aimed the quicklime toward the Cowhead Monster camp, and activated his bloodline ability¡­ Chapter 45 ¡­ ¡­ Yi Qiu¡¯s bloodline energy started to become restless. The wind around started to become crazy too. As the bushes rattled and rustled, a huge wind blew toward the Cowhead Monster camp. Flying Sand! Quicklime instantly wrapped up the entire Cowhead Monster camp. The Cowhead Monsters woke up and they noticed that it was pitch black. An intense pain spread from their eyes. ¡°Kong!¡± The intense pain caused them all to become mad. They grabbed the axe around them and randomly slashed about¡­ ¡°Kong!¡± After their partner¡¯s axe sliced them, they returned an axe. The entire camp was in chaos. What surprised Yi Qiu was that the fellow that seemed like a cyborg was really crazy. Even if the Cowhead Monsters slashed it, it was perfectly fine. However, one axe from it nearly sliced off the arm of another monster! Yi Qiu touched his bald head and estimated that his strength and physique probably wasn¡¯t too bad. The Cyborg Cowhead Monster became more and more excited as it slashed. After a roar, it spat out flames from its mouth. The Cowhead Monster in front of it cried out after being hit by the flames. The smell of barbecued meat spread out in the air. What was surprising was that although the Cowhead Monster was barbecued, it didn¡¯t flee. It took its axe and sliced toward the Cyborg Cowhead Monster. It sucessfully enraged it and the Cyborg Cowhead Monster slashed it to the ground. Yi Qiu touched his bald head. Be it their health or how clumsy they were, he found it to his liking. What he felt regretful about was that he couldn¡¯t have a good battle with them.. After all, he wasn¡¯t strong enough yet. One was brave if one fought someone that was stronger than them, but Yi Qiu didn¡¯t need to be brave. ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ The chaos lasted for ten minutes. The scorching effect that the quicklime had on the Cowhead Monster wasn¡¯t as useful as it was against humans. This was because the strong lifeforce of the Cowhead Monsters allowed them to heal quickly. At this moment, only the few Cyborg Cowhead Monster and the two scale-covered ones were left. Yi Qiu touched his bald head and stood up from the bush. It was time to be reckless. Yi Qiu squinted his eyes and started to activate the Ki in his body. Eight Gates, Gate of Opening open! His pupils constricted and power surged. ¡°Kong!¡± The Cyborg Cowhead Monster gave out a furious roar, it flicked the Cowhead Monster blocking its way and charged toward Yi Qiu. Compared to normal Cowhead Monsters, its movement was slower. But it seemed much heavier, which was why Yi Qiu could sense the ground shake. Yi Qiu finally understood why they mostly lived in a certain area. That was because those places had solid soil due to many years of them trampling on it. If it was another part of the forest, the soft soil could cause their hooves to sink in. After all, compared to the four hooves of cows, the Cowhead Monster only had 2. Their weight exceeded that of a normal cow and thus it was very inconvenient for them walking in a forest. ¡°Xiu!¡± Yi Qiu accelerated and charged toward the Cyborg Cowhead Monster. His right fist gave out invisible ripples, this was the Monk skill: Fist of Awe! ¡°Hu!¡± What Yi Qiu didn¡¯t expect was for it to suddenly stop and start to spit out flames at Yi Qiu! Reflex Dodge! Truth proved that when facing danger, the chances of one dodging using Reflex Dodge was higher. When the high temperature was about to hit Yi Qiu¡¯s skin, his body suddenly tensed up and it was as if the ground had no more friction, so he slid to the side to avoid the flames. While the Cyborg Cowhead Monster was still splitting flames, Yi Qiu charged from the side! ¡°Peng!¡± With a heavy fist, he smacked the Cyborg Cowhead Monster¡¯s crotch. Yi Qiu could sense some thin bones cracking. Yi Qiu¡¯s fist interrupted the flame spitting. This was because the mental power within the fist had stunned it directly. Fist of Awe! While it was still in a stunned state, Yi Qiu¡¯s left leg turned into an afterimage and landed right on its right leg! Flurry of Blows! Yi Qiu aimed for its lower body, but it was hard to control Flurry of Blows, so in the end, he kicked the right leg. The Cyborg Cowhead Monster¡¯s right leg twisted, but it instantly recovered. Yi Qiu didn¡¯t stop. When he retracted his right leg, his left spun and continued to kick the Cyborg Cowhead Monster¡¯s right leg! The right leg immediately showed signs of unnatural bending. This Cyborg Cowhead Monster was awakened by the intense pain. Flurry of Blows! Even after it woke up, it was unable to defend against Yi Qiu¡¯s attack tempo. After standing still from his spinning kick, Yi Qiu¡¯s right fist landed on the Cyborg Cowhead Monster¡¯s lower body! ¡°Ao!¡± As planned, Yi Qiu¡¯s fist landed. Landing on a weak spot, his right fist caused even more pain for the Cyborg Cowhead Monster, heavily damaged it. Due to its barbaric nature, the Cyborg Cowhead Monster didn¡¯t lose all its fighting strength. After roaring, it slashed furiously at Yi Qiu! ¡°Peng!¡± Yi Qiu was couldn¡¯t be bothered to dodge, so he used his bald head to smack the axe! Yi Qiu realized that the Copper Skull Iron Head ability was really good. Especially since he was short and his head could basically be used as a shield. Although he suffered some recoil damage, compared to a direct axe strike, it was much lower. While the Cyborg Cowhead Monster was stunned after slashing out, Yi Qiu¡¯s left fist smacked right at it! Yi Qiu aimed at the lower body but due to its movement, he landed on its waist! ¡°Peng!¡± The soft waist pretty much caved in, but after Yi Qiu retracted his punch, it went back to normal. However, Yi Qiu knew that the organs inside were heavily damaged. For the weak spots to be hit time after time, the Cyborg Cowhead Monster didn¡¯t have any energy to continue. After all, basic physics and biology were at play. Yi Qiu didn¡¯t have time to use Reflex Dodge, just using his own agility to dodge its powerless axe. Then, he used Ki to launch Flurry of Blows to end it. ¡°You have killed the Cyborg Cowhead Monster, you have obtained 50 Secret Dungeon points.¡± Yi Qiu was surprised by the fact that it actually dropped a chest! Chapter 46 A pale blue chest floated on top of the Cyborg Cowhead Monster¡¯s body. Yi Qiu reached out and picked it up. An infomation appeared on his retina screen. ¡°You have obtained Cyborg Cowhead Monster¡¯s Art of War (Blue).¡± Cyborg Cowhead Monster¡¯s Art of War (Blue): Quality: Blue Origin: Cowhead Monster Playground Item Level: 5 Type: Consumable Expiry Date: 24 hours Description: After use, obtain 100-1000 experience (Based on character level) PS: Items with expiry dates must be used within a certain time, after which the items will disappear. Yi Qiu¡¯s eyes lit up. Based on his level, this Cyborg Cowhead Monster¡¯s Art of War was also Level 5, which meant that after use he would most probably get 1,000 Experience Points. Yi Qiu estimated that apart from the final difficulty of a dungeon, the reward for passing a dungeon was basically 1,000 Experience. This meant that if every Cyborg Cowhead Monster dropped an Art of War, it was the same as each dropping a random dungeon. After all, based on his level, even if he didn¡¯t get 1,000 points, he wouldn¡¯t get 100. The Integrated Network didn¡¯t inherit the bloodline of a penguin, based on penguins, 100-1,000 meant that there was a 99.9% chance it would be 100. This was the way they decided rewards. There were still 14 Cyborg Cowhead Monsters at Cowhead Monster Playground. Yi Qiu touched his bald head and felt like it was a plan. Of course, all these were in the future. Yi Qiu was interested in the chest that the Cyborg Cowhead Monster was protecting. The remaining 2 Cowhead Monsters in the camp were killed for blocking the Cyborg Cowhead Monster, the other one was panting beside it. One of its arms was sliced off in the chaos, and the loss of blood caused it to become weak. When it noticed Yi Qiu get close, it stared at him viciously. If it wasn¡¯t out of energy, it would have raised its axe and slashed him. Yi Qiu kicked it to death. He didn¡¯t show any pity at all. He wouldn¡¯t kill for fun, but wouldn¡¯t let people off just because his heart was soft. ¡°You have killed Protector Cowhead Monster, you have obtained 2 Secret Dungeon points.¡± ¡°Current Secret Dungeon points: 53.¡± Not to mention a Cowhead Monster, even a girl with charm 20, as long as it was an enemy, Yi Qiu wouldn¡¯t show mercy. When Yi Qiu came into contact with the golden chest, a notification appeared on his retina screen. ¡°Will you obtain Cowhead Monster Equipment Chest (Blue)?¡± ¡°Yes.¡± Although he was sad that it shone a golden light that was only of blue quality, Yi Qiu chose to take it. No matter what, it was still a chest, so there was no reason for him not to take it. ¡°Trying to keep chest¡­¡± An invisible force started to spread around the chest. Yi Qiu could sense the color changing. Yi Qiu estimated that it would take 2 minutes to collect the chest¡­ Now that the entire Cowhead Monster camp was cleared, he didn¡¯t need to worry about any problems. 2 minutes passed quickly and the chest disappeared. Notifications appeared in Yi Qiu¡¯s eyes. ¡°You have collected Cowhead Monster Equipment Chest (Blue).¡± ¡°Please pay attention, Cowhead Monster Equipment Chest has been taken, refresh time: 23 hours 59 minutes.¡± The first one was a personal notification while the next was a regional one. Only Lie Fu and Yi Qiu were inside the dungeon which made Yi Qiu feel that it was a good thing that there were just a few people. At least, one received large amounts of resources. Although they might not be able to kill the Cyborg Cowhead Monster King, the Cyborg Cowhead Monsters themselves were a huge gain. Yi Qiu contemplated that Lie Fu and him wouldn¡¯t be able to kill so many of them in a day. He had to rely on Flying Sand and Quicklime. He could only use quicklime 5 times a day and then he would have to wait for his bloodline energy to recover. He had also finished the quicklime in his inventory and he needed to head out to purchase. Luckily, he was the one who opened the secret dungeon, so naturally he didn¡¯t need to pay anything. The time ratio between the secret dungeon and earth, as well as dungeons were different. It was caused by the plane¡¯s fluctuation. Because the secret dungeon was more closely connected to the earth, the time ratio was 1:1. He touched his bald head and started to check the infomation of the chest that he had collected. Cowhead Monster Equipment Chest (Blue): Quality: Blue Type: Chest Chest Level: 5 Chest Keyword: Cowhead Monster, Equipment Description: This chest can only be used after the sealed period. Then, one can obtain a Level 5 blue quality equipment. This chest will randomly spawn in the elite camps in the Cowhead Monster secret dungeon. After it is taken, it will refresh in 24 hours. Merging with the same name chest will raise its quality, and the highest chest quality would be pale gold. It could actually be merged. This was the first time Yi Qiu had seen such a chest. However, he liked this system. After all, there were only 9 days left. He publicized the place for 3 days which meant that even if he didn¡¯t get a chest tomorrow or the day after, the remaining 7 would be enough for him to upgrade it to pale gold. The upgrade system meant that one chest would upgrade it once¡­ ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ ¡­¡­ The Cowhead Monster Playground was a circular forest. The border was a space barrier and the middle was a bright lake. The leader spawned beside the lake. The leader monster today was the Cyborg Cowhead Monster King. Yi Qiu looked out and it was a 5-meter tall being, like the enlarged Cyborg Cowhead Monster. It looked even weirder but had fewer bits of flesh and meat on it. It was pretty much covered in red armor, giving one a feeling like it would be hard to attack. Its weapon was a heavy, 2-meter long, giant axe. There were 3 Cyborg Cowhead Monsters and dozens of Cowhead Monsters beside it. After looking at it, Yi Qiu lost all interest and retreated. This wasn¡¯t something he could deal with now. In terms of numbers, Yi Qiu estimated that they needed 20 Level 5 players to try. If he were to use weapons, he would have to use an RPG. Even if the bullets could pierce the armor, due to its size, bullets wouldn¡¯t be effective. Thus, he changed his target to the Cyborg Cowhead Monster. He glanced at the secret dungeon infomation, 14/15 Cyborg Cowhead Monster remained¡­ Yi Qiu hid in the bushes and avoided a patrolling Cowhead Monster. He continued to search for the next camp¡­ ¡­ ¡­ Chapter 47 ¡­ ¡­ ¡°Secret Dungeon will close in 10 minutes, remaining time 0 hours, 9 minutes.¡± ¡°You have killed Cyborg Cowhead Monster, and you have obtained 50 Secret Dungeon points.¡± ¡°Current Secret Dungeon points: 2,750.¡± The Cyborg Cowhead Monster fell to the ground and Yi Qiu deactivated Eight Gates. He wiped off the bloodstains and sweat off his head, and slowly lowered himself to the ground. To not waste secret dungeon time, Yi Qiu only rested 3 hours a day. For the remaining time, he pretty much spent it all in the secret dungeon. Yi Qiu¡¯s eyes were bloodshot due to his lack of sleep. Along with his sweat and blood stained bald head, his charm was really -5. On the 4th day, Yi Qiu understood the system of Cowhead Monster Playground: Cowhead Monster Playground would spawn 3 elite Cowhead Monsters: Cyborg Cowhead Monster, Cowhead Spirit, and Hell Cowhead Monster, each day it would have a new one which would change each day. The leader was just the elite monster with the word ¡®king¡¯ behind it. Yi Qiu didn¡¯t pay much attention to it. They were unable to form a 5-man party and thought about challenging a boss with a difficulty of 20, they would probably get wiped¡­ All the elite Cowhead Monsters would drop Art of War, but the quality was different. The best one he got was purple, giving him 5,000 experience. But a large portion was white, green, and occasionally blue. Yu Qiu used all the Cowhead Monsters Art of War as they had a 24 hour expiry period. After 10 days, Yi Qiu¡¯s experience rose to 21,620, pretty much the number one received after passing a dungeon gave. But passing a dungeon was one time off. As the person leveled, the solo dungeon¡¯s difficulty would increase. To complete the same level solo dungeon at Level 10 was a really difficult thing to do. Hence, passing a dungeon belonged to a reward that couldn¡¯t be acquired again. The secret dungeon was different, only by getting a scroll could one open up the secret dungeon. The difficulty was limited too, unlike the solo dungeon where the challenge level and the character level were the same. When one reached the upper limit of the secret dungeon, the increase in character level wouldn¡¯t affect the secret dungeon level. Thus, the secret dungeon was a resource that could regenerate. This was why there was a reason why it was called a reward map. Out of the three types of elite Cowhead Monsters, the easiest to kill was the Cyborg Cowhead Monster. Yi Qiu used Flying Sand and was able to kill one. The Cowhead Spirit was one that Yi Qiu hadn¡¯t managed to kill yet as it wouldn¡¯t fall for the quicklime. This made him really helpless. Although Douqi Strike allowed Yi Qiu to deal damage to it normally, with 10 of these in a camp, he had no chance fighting head-on against them¡­ The Hell Cowhead Monster was just, meaty, after using Flying Sand to make it blind, they slashed at one another and none of them died. He had to use Flying Sand once more¡­ Thus, Yi Qiu only obtained 2,750 points at the end of the dungeon. If he faced only Cyborg Cowhead Monster, this number would at least double. ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ Yi Qiu laid lazily on his sofa. After washing up with soap, his body was still steaming hot. This secret dungeon really tired him out, but the rewards he received were huge too. Apart from experience, the dungeon points and equipment chests were things that Yi Qiu had to deal with. After resting, Yi Qiu sat up. The first thing he opened was the secret dungeon shop. ¡°Secret Dungeon Shop (Remaining time: 24 Hours 45 Minutes): Points: 2,750 1. Cowhead Monster Power (Consumable): After use, one obtains the strength of Cowhead Monster (14), the buff lasts for 10 minutes. Points needed: 5 2. Cyborg Cowhead Monster Power (Consumable): After use, one obtains the strength of Cyborg Cowhead Monster (16), the buff lasts for 10 minutes. Points needed: 10 3. Cowhead Monster Spirit (Consumable): After use obtains the agility of Cowhead Monster Spirit (16), buff lasts for 10 minutes Points needed: 10; 4. Hell Cowhead Monster¡¯s Magnificence (Consumable): After use, one obtains the physique of the Hell Cowhead Monster (16), the buff lasts for 10 minutes. 5. Cowhead Monster Bloodline Material: Quality: White Bloodline Level: 5 Keyword: Power (Green), Physique (Green), Recovery Points needed: 50 6. Cyborg Cowhead Monster Bloodline Material ¡­ ¡­¡± The items in the shop were very practical, apart from the basic serums, bloodline materials were really practical. Whether using them to raise stats or igniting bloodline model, bloodline material were very useful, and they belonged to the currency of Yi Qiu¡¯s version. Yi Qiu wasn¡¯t prepared to merge with these low-grade bloodline materials as the effects were limited. Each time he merged with one, the price of the next merger would at least double. However, Yi Qiu noticed that the Hell Cowhead Monster Bloodline Material could activate Cow Totem¡¯s Six Arm ability, so he bought 5 of them. The Hell Cowhead Monster Bloodline Material required 200 points, so Yi Qiu exchanged for 5, spending 1,000. He was left with 1,750. As for the rest, he exchanged for a Hell Cowhead Monster King Bloodline Material, spending 1,500 points. He spent the last 250 on Hell Cowhead Monster Potions. Power and agility were things he could get using Eight Gates, this potion helped cover his weaknesses. In truth, Yi Qiu¡¯s physique wasn¡¯t bad at 13. Before using Eight Gates, it was his highest stats. However, after opening Eight Gates, the 16 points of strength and agility were much higher. After dealing with the secret dungeon points, Yi Qiu opened his inventory. This was the fun part. Cowhead Monster Equipment Chest (Blue): Quality: Blue Type: Chest Chest Level: 5 Chest Keyword: Cowhead Monster, Equipment Description: This chest can only be used after the sealed period. After which, one can obtain a Level 5 blue quality equipment. This chest will randomly spawn in the elite camps in the Cowhead Monster secret dungeon. After it is taken, it will refresh in 24 hours. Merging with the same name chest will raise its quality, and the highest chest quality would be pale gold. The Cowhead Monster Playground was opened for 10 days and Yi Qiu obtained 6 chests while Lie Fu received one. Because the monsters were the Cowhead Monster Spirit, Yi Qiu and Lie Fu didn¡¯t get any. ¡°Will you merge the chest?¡± Yi Qiu touched his bald head and chose to merge. ¡°Merger success, Cowhead Monster Equipment quality increase, current quality: Blue!¡± Yi Qiu wasn¡¯t dispirited and chose to continue merging¡­ ¡°Will you merge the chest?¡± ¡°Yes!¡± ¡°Merger success, Cowhead Monster Equipment Chest quality increased, current quality: Purple!¡± ¡°Will you merge the chest?¡± ¡°Yes!¡± ¡°Merger success, Cowhead Monster Equipment Chest quality increased, current quality: Purple!¡± ¡­ ¡­ ¡°Merger success, Cowhead Monster Equipment Chest quality increased, current quality: Purple!¡± Yi Qiu only had two more chests. He took out a cigarette and took in a deep breath before clicking¡­ ¡°Will you merge the chest?¡± ¡°Yes!¡± ¡­ Chapter 48 ¡­ ¡°Merger success, Cowhead Monster Equipment Chest quality increased, current quality: Purple!¡± He was left with only one more. Yi Qiu didn¡¯t hesitate and chose to merge. ¡°Merger success, Cowhead Monster Equipment Chest quality increased, current quality is: Pale Gold!¡± A pale golden glow seeped out from his inventory. It wasn¡¯t eye-catching, but it gave off a majestic feeling. Yi Qiu touched his bald head. 6 Blue quality chests merged to form a single Pale Gold one. It seemed like one Cowhead Monster Playground would at most give out one Pale Gold quality Cowhead Monster Chest. Cowhead Monster Equipment Chest (Pale Gold): Quality: Pale Gold Type: Chest Chest Level: 5 Chest Keyword: Cowhead Monster, Equipment Description: Opening this chest will give one a Pale Gold quality Level 5 equipment. This chest has risen to its highest quality and one will be unable to use the same name chests to raise it. Yi Qiu touched his bald head. As he had spent 10 days in the secret dungeon, the treasure offering cooldown was over. Yi Qiu opened his inventory and took out the Brass Knuckle Duster he had set aside for a long time. Brass Knuckle Duster: Origin: Azeroth Item level: 1 Quality: White Durability: 25/35 Attack: 1-5 Attack type: Pierce Weight: 0.5kg Description: A knuckle duster made from brass. Due to poor maintenance, it has started to rust. Yi Qiu didn¡¯t have much need for knuckle dusters as they would change his attacks to piercing attacks. If the weapon¡¯s attack wasn¡¯t strong enough, the piercing attack would be weak against heavy armor. Yi Qiu didn¡¯t like to wear those random things on his hand as it affected his feeling. ¡°Will you give the Brass Knuckle Duster as an offering?¡± ¡°Yes!¡± A pale flame rose up from the Brass Knuckle Duster. Yi Qiu didn¡¯t throw it on the ground and just held it in his hands. He wanted to sense it at close proximity. There was no temperature. If he didn¡¯t feel that the Brass Knuckle Duster was becoming lighter and the flames were growing larger, Yi Qiu wouldn¡¯t be able to sense that this grey flame even existed. Finally, the Brass Knuckle Duster turned into a ball of grey flames. Yi Qiu clenched his left hand and a magical tremor spread out. Yi Qiu could sense that an indescribable thing was being summoned¡­ ¡°Ritual completed, you have obtained 10 minutes of luck buff (+3).¡± As expected, since the quality was low, the effect was much weaker too. Although the Brass Knuckle Duster quality was low, it was an item with stats and was recognized by the Integrated Network. 14 Luck was barely enough. Yi Qiu first took out the Dragon Bloodline Dog-Head Man bloodline material. He had 3,240 coins. He only earned 500 from the entrance fee and 25 were taken as a service fee. Bloodline Material ¨C Dragon Bloodline Dog-head Man: Quality: Blue Origin: Cthuma¡¯s Cave Keywords: Flame, Dragon Bloodline (Red Dragon) Bloodline Property: Fire (Blue), Strength (Blue), Stamina (Green) Bloodline Level: 5 ¡°Will you merge with bloodline material ¨C Dragon Bloodline Dog-Head Man? Merging with this bloodline material will consume 1,340 coins.¡± ¡°Yes!¡± ¡°Consumed 1,340 Integrated Network coins, bloodline merger will begin¡­¡± Yi Qiu could sense an aura surging into his body, but the Cow Head mark on his forehead seemed to reject it. In the end, the head disappeared. ¡°Bloodline merger success. However, Bloodline Model did not accept it, Fire Breathing ability has failed.¡± A red, blinding notification appeared on his retina screen. Before Yi Qiu went to check why it would reject the Fire Breathing ability, his heart suddenly constricted, causing him to grab his chest and fall to the ground. His muscles were overwhelmed by a tearing pain¡­ The high speed growth of strength didn¡¯t feel good, and the intense pain caused green veins to appear on his head! Sweat flowed profusely. The clothes that Yi Qiu just changed were now soaked¡­ That intense pain came and went quickly. After it totally disappeared, a line of green words appeared on his retina screen: ¡°Bloodline merger success, character strength increased.¡± ¡°Your Strength has risen to 14.¡± ¡°Bloodline merger completed.¡± ¡°Hu.¡± Yi Qiu exhaled a deep breath. Even after having been through it many times, this intense pain was something he couldn¡¯t bear with. However, this pain made him feel real. He enjoyed this reality. As he was used to the 16 Strength after opening the Gate of Opening, thus he was still able to control the 14 Strength. Compared to the surging power after opening Gate of Opening, this feeling that came from his body felt purer. Yi Qiu touched his sweaty muscles through his soaking clothes. They weren¡¯t swelling and weren¡¯t as exaggerated as those bodybuilders, but he was able to sense the strength hidden within. The increase in strength would result in an increase in size. Yi Qiu felt that his clothes were a little smaller and they were much tighter. He looked at a mirror, and he felt like he had grown taller. He was roughly 1.7 meters now. He tossed his wet clothing to the side, wiping his sweat and continuing to use the Integrated Network interface. As the offering had only 10 minutes of buff, he took out the Hell Cowhead King Bloodline Material he just exchanged for. Bloodline Material ¨C Hell Cowhead Monster King: Quality: Purple Origin: Cowhead Monster Playground Keyword: Stamina, Recovery, Durability Bloodline Property: Stamina (Purple), Quick Recovery (Purple) Bloodline Level: 5 ¡°Will you merge with bloodline material ¨C Hell Cowhead Monster King? Merging Bloodline Material will consume 2,780 coins. ¡± Yi Qiu frowned. He had only 1,900 coins left but he roughly understood the bloodline merger system. It would be double the previous cost, sometimes more, but not more than 3 times. As he had not enough, Yi Qiu gave up on merging with it. He was now left with his biggest reward from Cowhead Monster Playground ¨C Cowhead Monster Equipment Chest (Pale Gold) which he hadn¡¯t opened. ¡°Will you open Cowhead Monster Equipment Chest (Pale Gold)?¡± ¡°Yes!¡± A pale gold light flashed. The Cowhead Monster Chest in his inventory disappeared and what replaced it looked like a glove. Cyborg Cowhead Monster King¡¯s Brassart Item Level: 5 Quality: Pale Gold Type: Brassart Attack: 15-20 Attack type: Pure Weight: 2.9kg Special effect: Cyborg Cowhead Monster King¡¯s rage: After being activated, the soul of the Cyborg Cowhead Monster King in the brassart will go berserk. Attacks will obtain a 40% buff and after a successful hit, the soul will rest for a moment (100 seconds), activating the effect will cause added consumption of durability. Cyborg Cowhead Monster King¡¯s soul strike: Each attack will have a 5% chance of activating the soul of the Cyborg Cowhead Monster King to deal a soul strike. If the enemy is unable to evade it (Soul evasion based on character level), they will be stunned (Stun duration based on physique, longest time is 3 seconds), and activating the effect will cause added consumption of durability. ¡­ ¡­ Chapter 49 ¡­ ¡­ Yi Qiu took out the Cyborg Cowhead Monster King Brassart from his inventory. This was a brassart that gave off a very high tech feeling to it. Under the blue thick armor was a high technological design. Yi Qiu wore the brassart and instantly he was wrapped up in armor from his arm to his shoulder. For reasons that Yi Qiu didn¡¯t know, the thick armor actually didn¡¯t seem heavy. Yi Qiu tried to punch out in the air. A sharp air breaking sound rose up. He felt that the strength was decent. No matter what weapon it was, only after a fight would one know its actual value. After all, since it was a Pale Gold equipment, Yi Qiu was quite confident in the Cyborg Cowhead Monster King armor. The Integrated Network items had a strict evaluation system and normally they wouldn¡¯t rate useless items highly. If there was, that would mean that the material of the item didn¡¯t reach its full potential. Yi Qiu tried to move his fingers and it felt a little tight. However, if he just punched there wouldn¡¯t be any effect. Normally, Yi Qiu wouldn¡¯t use a palm strike. Without skills supporting, a palm and a punch were totally different. After all, with the contact area of the palm, under the same strength, the effect was far from that of a fist. Of course, if one needed to cover a wider area to deal a hidden force, or if one had special techniques, a palm strike would be very advantageous. If not, just using a fist would be much more suitable. He kept the Cyborg Cowhead Monster King Brassart. Within a short period of time, Yi Qiu wasn¡¯t prepared to do any battle maps. 10 days of crazy battling made Yi Qiu really tired. He had never been through a fight of such difficulty. Both his mind and body were in need of rest. If not for the effect of Stillness of Mind, Yi Qiu didn¡¯t know whether he could survive the 10 days. He stretched and was thinking about where to go to relax. Lie Fu left a message on the forum to say that he faced a small problem regarding his wife. It was roughly about the fact that she was unhappy that her husband went out for 3 days, and in rage she took the kids and left to her mother¡¯s home¡­ Thinking about the style of the Russians, Yi Qiu lit an incense for Lie Fu¡­ He touched his bald head, opened his laptop and started to scroll the forum. There hadn¡¯t been anything new recently. After all, it was close to the new year and everyone was busy heading home. As such no one bothered to do anything. He scrolled for a long time and they were mostly old posts. Yi Qiu closed his laptop and he was prepared to go look at some pretty girls. Based on the unreliable words of an expert, each time one saw a girl, one¡¯s lifespan would increase¡­ City C had just a few famous sceneries. Apart from those popular ones, Yi Qiu didn¡¯t want to squeeze with random people. Naturally, Yuelu Mountain was a good choice. Yi Qiu occasionally climbed Yuelu Mountain when he was in school but due to his weak physique, each time he ran to the peak his stamina ran out. He bathed once more, changing clothes and he was prepared to climb a mountain. Speaking of which, his clothes were all black or darker colors. It wasn¡¯t because he loved dark colors, but because if they became dirty, no one could see it¡­ Although he had a washing machine, white clothes were difficult to clean. In truth, Yi Qiu did like the color white¡­ ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ The foot of Yuelu Mountain. There were two entrances at Yuelu Mountain. Thus, there were two paths up. One was short and steep, and one was long and flat. Yi Qiu chose to climb the steeper one. Although it was steep, as it was a proper path, it was easy to cover. However, Yi Qiu wasn¡¯t planning to take the proper path. There were too many people there and it was quite pointless to do so. There were many small roads around Yuelu Mountain. Some could even be covered by bicycles. Yi Qiu didn¡¯t like to walk these paths in the past. As it was tough to cover and there weren¡¯t many people, it wasn¡¯t suitable for people who had no stamina. He touched his bald head and he started to climb up. It was close to the new year so there weren¡¯t many people on the mountain. Of course this was because Yi Qiu was taking the small path. If he took the actual one there were still a few people climbing and keeping fit. There were dense trees all around. Although they weren¡¯t as high and tall as the Cowhead Monster Playground ones, there were birds that flew around. It felt like it was full of life. Since it was winter, there weren¡¯t any snakes and insects. Although Yi Qiu wasn¡¯t afraid of such things, it would be problematic if he bumped into any. The had just stopped and the path was wet. The leaves on the ground gave off a watery light. It was noon and the sun shone brightly. Yi Qiu stepped on the dead leaves and walked slowly in this picturesque scenery. He was brimming with stamina and strength which made the climbing really easy. At that moment, he was in awe, he had distanced himself so much from his old self¡­ The air was fresh. Even if Yi Qiu stood in the suburbs, the air couldn¡¯t be said to be any fresher. At least compared to the mountains which energized him, it was far from it. Yi Qiu looked at a temple in front. It was built on a piece of stone that stuck out from the mountain, looking out of this world, like the place in books that they said celestials stayed in. Along the broken stone path, Yi Qiu came to the temple. He saw a middle-aged uncle wearing a Taoist robe and eating noodles. The uncle glanced at Yi Qiu and then continued eating. While he ate, he seemed to have thought about something and glanced at Yi Qiu once more. He was then stunned on the spot¡­ Yi Qiu didn¡¯t worry about him and looked at the temple. It was really simple; there were three statues and a few mats. The side temples were closed, so he couldn¡¯t see anything. It seemed like there wasn¡¯t much worth looking at. Moreover, Yi Qiu also didn¡¯t have a habit of praying. Thus, Yi Qiu passed the temple and continued to climb up. After reaching the temple, Yi Qiu touched the Black Cow Mark on his forehead. He felt like the old uncle was staring at it¡­ What he didn¡¯t know was that after he left, uncle placed down his bowl and rushed to the side hall. There were many books in the side hall. The uncle flipped many books and finally stopped. He picked up an old-looking book and carefully flipped to one of the pages. Only to see a Black Cow Mark on it, it was the same as the one on Yi Qiu¡¯s forehead! There were texts written in ancient languages. The uncle translated word by word with much difficulty¡­ ¡°¡­Nine¡­Li¡­¡± ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ Chapter 50 ¡­ ¡­ There was a small hill behind the temple. From the overall look, it was a small bump in the spine of Yuelu Mountain. Who knew whether it was natural or man-made? There was a flat stone on the hill. It wasn¡¯t too large and could only support a few people there. However, the area was decent. Standing there, one could see everything. Below it was a cliff and there was a sharp wind that blew across. There was someone there when Yi Qiu arrived. It was a girl who wore a pale green traditional Chinese dress. She was probably a cosplayer or someone who loved traditional Chinese dresses. Who knew how she got up? After all, it was tough for one to wear that and climb a mountain. It wasn¡¯t that the Chinese traditional wear was inconvenient, but because most people were used to comfortable casual wear. Thus, it wasn¡¯t so comfortable to wear traditional Chinese dresses. The wind caused her hair to dance about. Her face was a little blur. Along with the dress, she was like a celestial standing in the wind, like a girl in the portrait¡­ From the side, Yi Qiu suddenly thought of a sentence¡­ Even the chest of elite people were A¡­ What a sad story¡­ Yi Qiu frowned and he suddenly felt a sad aura. Since he cultivated as a Monk when his Monk level reached 17, he would be able to talk to any living being. Monks could understand movement, information, and words. They could merge this special power into their words such that the other party would understand too. It was: Universal Language! Yi Qiu¡¯s cultivation wasn¡¯t sufficient and he hadn¡¯t reached that level yet, so naturally he hadn¡¯t grasped Universal Language. But as they say, Rome wasn¡¯t built in a day. Although Yi Qiu didn¡¯t reach the conditions for Universal Language, as he cultivated, he could slowly sense the aura of everyone¡¯s bodies. Universal Language¡¯s theory was using the sentience of one to communicate with another. When living beings wanted to express infomation, the aura they gave out would change. Universal Language would analyze that and decode it, changing it to infomation that Monks would be able to understand. Sometimes, although people didn¡¯t speak, the strong emotions would also give rise to intense aura fluctuations. Even if they didn¡¯t speak, they could still sense it. Maybe because she heard Yi Qiu¡¯s footsteps, her body shook. She jumped down to the deep cliff below! Yi Qiu, ¡°???¡± Yi Qiu was stunned for roughly 0.1 seconds. He probably didn¡¯t expect that he would face such a story-like situation. Then, he jumped up and grabbed her shirt! ¡°Si la!¡± Before Yi Qiu was able to pull her up, her seemingly decent quality clothing was torn! Yi Qiu¡¯s hands grabbed nothing. The girl was going to fall! Yi Qiu¡¯s instantly reacted! Flying Sand! This was pretty much the fastest Flying Sand that Yi Qiu used to date. It was different from when he just used the skill forward in the past. This time, the wind wrapped around and pushed her up from below! Luckily, she was quite thin and her weight was average. Thus, the Flying Sand skill could support her. If she was heavier, Yi Qiu could only take out his phone and dial 120 while praying for her in his heart¡­ Yi Qiu reached out and grabbed the girl who was about to fly into the air before placing her onto the stone. Wu, white¡­ She was stunned. She looked right at Yi Qiu, her eyes were red but there weren¡¯t any tears at all. When one looked at her one felt really heart pained. ¡°Wa!¡± She calmed down, hugging Yi Qiu and crying out loud. She didn¡¯t look like a weak girl who wanted to kill herself. Yi Qiu looked at the girl and didn¡¯t know what to do. He wasn¡¯t good with words and when facing such a situation he was helpless too. He didn¡¯t want to say those weak words, so he just closed his mouth, patted her back, and allowed her to cry. He recalled the way he used Flying Sand just now. It seemed like there were many things that he needed to explore. Like a pair of hands, some used them to fold paper while some used them for killing, and some used them as their girlfriend¡­ Which was why one had to have creativity¡­ Speaking of which, why did he suddenly come to climb the mountain? Yi Qiu felt that everything was really a coincidence today. He thought about it and realized that he thought about climbing the mountain when he was doing the treasure offering. After the treasure offering, he didn¡¯t think about it anymore, but because he didn¡¯t have any other decent place to go, he chose to climb the mountain. Which was why luck played a part in such a way too? Yi Qiu touched his bald head and thought to himself. ¡­ ¡­ The girl cried for a long time. Yi Qiu could sense how wronged and frustrated she was. Although Yi Qiu was unfazed, he felt heart pained. En, although Yi Qiu passed her charm test, one¡¯s love for beautiful things didn¡¯t just stem from desire. This was why the main stat of the world seemed to be charm¡­ Maybe she had cried enough, so she released Yi Qiu and used her dress to wipe her tears. ¡°Thank you Master.¡± Maybe because she had cried for a long time, her throat was a little hoarse. However, it was still nice to listen to, unlike the accent of southern girls. It was gentle but with a bit of directness to it. Yi Qiu was instantly stunned. As expected, only when one looked good would others call one Sir, people with 9 Charm like him could only be called Master. Speaking of which, although he was 20, the time resulted in him looking older than people of the same age. Along with a dark-colored shirt, it seemed right that he was called Master. ¡°It is okay.¡± Yi Qiu touched his bald head. It seemed like her emotions had stabilized. He didn¡¯t want to waste time as his use of Flying Sand gave him a lot of inspiration. However, Yi Qiu didn¡¯t feel like it was suitable to just toss a girl who wanted to kill herself here. He had his own standards. Normally, Yi Qiu didn¡¯t like to be a busybody, but if he cared, then he would care all the way. She took out her phone that was already switched off, and the moment she connected to a signal there was a call. ¡°Hello?¡± She chose to pick up and then said with her hoarse voice. ¡°Is that Xiaolu? Where are you? Everyone is looking for you, but your phone was off. Everyone is anxious to death!¡± An anxious female voice spoke. Even though she wasn¡¯t on the loudspeaker, Yi Qiu could still hear it clearly. ¡°I am okay, I will come back soon.¡± ¡­ ¡­ The girl and the other girl who called her talked for a long time while Yi Qiu stood to the side. He saw a girl wearing a red dress running over from the small road behind the temple. She wore high heels and it was really tough on her. ¡°Hu hu, Xiaolu are you really okay?¡± She ran so anxiously that she was panted heavily. Seeing that someone came, he relaxed a lot. He didn¡¯t say anything and just walked down the mountain. He had gained huge rewards today and he was in a relaxed mood. He had to put his mind to some serious matters. ¡°Who is he?¡± The female in the red shirt asked the girl. The girl didn¡¯t say anything, but just by looking at Yi Qiu¡¯s back, she thought about something. She laughed and her tear covered face looked much happier. ¡°Bald Head Little Brother, I am Nan Xiaolu!¡± She placed her hands by her mouth forming a cone and she shouted at Yi Qiu. ¡°Okay.¡± Yi Qiu waved his hands and disappeared in the forest of Yuelu Mountain¡­ ¡­ ¡­ Chapter 51 ¡­ Sun Zhongzhen frowned and carefully read the ancient texts he translated. The more he read, the deeper his frown. He took out an old book from the side, carefully analyzing the diagram on it. His face became redder and redder. ¡°It isn¡¯t a tattoo, it definitely isn¡¯t!¡± Sun Zhongzhen placed down the ancient book and made several rounds around the side hall emotionally. In his mouth, he was muttering. ¡°No, I have to tell Senior Brother!¡± Sun Zhongzhen trembled as he took out his phone. He scrolled for a long time before he was able to find that number that he hadn¡¯t contacted in a long time. ¡°Hello, is this Senior Brother?¡± Sun Zhongzhen¡¯s voice was trembling. ¡°En, Zhen?!¡± An old voice could be heard from the phone. ¡°It is me!¡± Sun Zhongzhen choked up a bit, but spoke after calming himself down. ¡°Senior Brother, I saw a person today, there was a Black Cow Mark on his forehead. I followed the books that Master left us and found that there is a high chance it is the bloodline of Nine Li. If the ancient bloodline can still be activated, then there will definitely be someone who can pull Zhenchun out of its sheath!¡± ¡°You are still so stubborn! Why are you so stubborn, what weird and mystical things are there even in our world today¡­ Even that monk who shocked the world and died at 100¡­ Why do you even chase such dreams? So what if Zhenchun is able to be pulled out of its sheath? Do you still not understand, this is not our time.¡± Because he was a little helpless, the voice on the phone was a little impatient. He paused, calmed himself a little, and then said, ¡°You are an only child and about to be 40. You should be thinking about your future, your Junior Sister and I have been worried about you. Don¡¯t end up like Master. Place down the scriptures, go out and take walks. Stop wasting your life in that old temple.¡± ¡°No, it is different! It is really different!¡± Sun Zhongzhen¡¯s was trembling. He thought about something and asked uneasily, ¡°Junior¡­ Junior Sister, is she okay?¡± ¡°Junior Sister is great, do you want to talk to her?¡± ¡°No! No! I have a night class to go to, I will leave first! With a pained expression, Sun Zhongzhen hung up. After keeping silent for a long while, he walked to the cabinet in the corner of the side hall. Maybe because it hadn¡¯t been wiped for a long time, it was covered in dust. Sun Zhongzhen trembled and opened the door of the cabinet. He took out an old copper mirror that was covered in dust. Sun Zhongzhen touched the copper mirror and the layer of dust on it, which reflected his blurry image. ¡°Master, if there really are no gods in this world, then why was I given all these!¡± Sun Zhongzhen hugged the copper mirror and teared up¡­ ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ With quick footsteps, Yi Qiu returned home. He obtained huge gains this time climbing the mountain, all sorts of gains¡­ He touched his bald head and was prepared to find a way to activate his Six Arms bloodline ability. One more arm would be a huge upgrade on his attack and defense. As for the change in appearance, Yi Qiu didn¡¯t care much about it. The bloodline ability of Six Arms needed many attack or regeneration related bloodline materials. He had exchanged for 5 of the quick recovery ones using the Hell Cowhead Monster bloodline material, and he needed 1 more heavy attack one. The cooldown of the random dungeon was over, but Yi Qiu predicted that there was a very low chance to use the dungeon to get it. After all, creatures that knew heavy strikes wouldn¡¯t be weak, so there wouldn¡¯t be a high chance of them appearing in a Level 5 dungeon. Yi Qiu started to check the new medium-sized battle quest on the forums. Orochi could definitely drop heavy attack bloodline materials, but Yi Qiu predicted that he wouldn¡¯t be able to take them down. After checking for a long time, all quests were much higher than his level, and the quests in his quest bar were all grey, so he had to check them, one by one. It was fortunate that although there were only 4 Integrated Network players, the number of quests on the forums was based on a standard plane. If one¡¯s mind could take it, one could spend the whole day in battle maps. However, that was not practical. It was like how libraries had enough knowledge for one to study for the rest of one¡¯s life. You could stay in there for a whole day to study, to grow and then become a CEO, and then marry¡­ Tsk, become a pillar of a country. But if one could spend the whole day in, most were couples and people trying to become couples. Yi Qiu wasn¡¯t such a person and he didn¡¯t want to force himself to become such a person. Saviors were busy leveling up to save the world. He didn¡¯t need to do that, he just needed to climb up step by step to enjoy a brilliant life¡­ There were so many saviors in the world and it didn¡¯t lack one called Yi Qiu. ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ After searching for a long time, Yi Qiu finally found a suitable quest: Nightmare in the depths of the ruins. A weird sound spread out from the depths of the ruins. It was said that someone saw a huge spider. One was very curious about what kind of charming attributes this rare living being had. Adventurer, please bring back the poison sack of a giant spider. ¡°Intense poison was the sweetest poison ¨C Unnamed Alchemist. Recommended Level: 7 (People lower than 7 can enter too) Battle Size: Medium Battle Entrance Fees: 250 (Original price of 500) Battle victory requirements: Satisfy alchemist requirements or make it such that he no longer has such a need. Requirements to exit the battle: Reach battle success requirements or stay in the map for 5 days, the longest stay is 10 natural days.¡± Recommended level of 7, this meant that the challenge level of the giant spider should be around 7 and normally it wouldn¡¯t exceed it. Unless Yi Qiu was able to activate an even tougher quest in the battle map, no matter what, even if he couldn¡¯t complete it, it was okay. Yi Qiu just needed to get a portion of heavy attack bloodline material. The giant spider would drop it, that was something Yi Qiu found out while searching the Integrated Network Newbie Manual. He selected the quest but he wasn¡¯t prepared to do it today. Although he was in good condition, he needed to sleep and be energized. His dinner was juicy pork chops that he hadn¡¯t finished. Only now did Yi Qiu recall that he lacked food. But this had to come after the giant spider. After all, his remaining juicy pork chops could last for several days. As he needed to spend at least 5 days on the battle map, Yi Qiu bought a box of noodles and a few bags of biscuits. Since he was near the shop, he would probably get it tomorrow. While eating the juicy pork chops, that Dragon-Li ran came over once more. Yi Qiu looked around and noticed that there were things on the clothing rack. It seemed like a girl was living there. He touched his bald head and retracted his gaze. ¡°Miao?¡± Yi Qiu touched his bald head and then took out juicy pork chops which he placed beside the cat. ¡°In the future, you will definitely crush my clothing rack.¡± Yi Qiu ate while saying to the cat. ¡°Miao?¡± ¡­ ¡­ Chapter 52 A silent night. He didn¡¯t even meditate like he did every day, but Yi Qiu still had a good rest. A Monk¡¯s meditation wouldn¡¯t make one more energized. The law of energy conservation didn¡¯t work in all places of the universe but it worked in most of them. A Monk¡¯s meditation turned one¡¯s excess energy into Ki, so one would be really tired after meditation. This was why a Monk would meditate before sleeping each day. When he got up from bed, Yi Qiu felt really energized. The noodles and biscuits that he bought online arrived at noon. Yi Qiu decided to select a few Monk skills. He currently had 21,620 Experience Points, enough to level up, but he had to leave some to activate the bloodline ability. At Level 5, it wasn¡¯t the right decision to rush levels. He chose a few skills to raise his combat strength in this battle map: The recommended level for Nightmare under the Ruins was 7, but he was only Level 5 now. Although it didn¡¯t mean that he had to be Level 7 to complete it, it was a relatively overall standard, to clearly differentiate the differences of one¡¯s combat strength. Monks had deep skill pools. All the specialized skills and branch skills that could be found in DND could all be found here. This was the reason why Yi Qiu didn¡¯t want to become a saint or acquire other cultivation techniques. Just the Monk¡¯s techniques were enough for him. Monk skills could be learned right away by consuming Integrated Network experience while one needed to slowly train after exchanging for secret techniques on the Integrated Network. It was best to focus. Although Yi Qiu wasn¡¯t smart, he thought that just relying on Monk skills alone was enough to form his combat system. Thus, he only trained in Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique to raise his stats and Eight Gates for the explosiveness. As for bloodline ability, Yi Qiu didn¡¯t mind learning those that could help him to raise his combat strength. But Yi Qiu¡¯s main development direction was still the Monk¡¯s skill bank. He considered that he was fighting in ruins, so he thought about a skill that could allow him to fight in a dark environment. In the end, he chose Blind Fighting. Although it was quite basic, it was really practical. Level 1 Blind Fighting: In the dark environment, one can make up for one¡¯s mistakes due to a lack of sight using one¡¯s senses. As it was a common skill, Yi Qiu only spent 2,000 points of experience to learn it. ¡°Will you learn the skill: Blind Fighting? Learning this skill will consume 2,000 experience.¡± ¡°Yes¡± ¡°Consumed 2,000 experience, learned Blind Fighting.¡± ¡°You have obtained skill: Blind Fighting.¡± Yi Qiu felt that his field of sight became much clearer. He sensed that it wasn¡¯t his vision becoming better but that the surrounding environment became blurred. Even if he closed his eyes, this blur sense still existed. When he opened his eyes, his senses and his sight would make up for one another, allowing him to see the dark corners, forming an illusion that his sight had become much clearer. Yi Qiu was still left with 19,620 points. He thought about it and decided not to use them for now, and he would wait till he saw the strength of the spider before deciding. He had a rough understanding of his skill now, but he didn¡¯t have a clear idea of what he needed. ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ After practicing Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique in the park all morning, Yi Qiu rushed a meal and was prepared to eat. Apart from noodles and biscuits, Yi Qiu made the unfinished tenderloin into juicy pork chops and brought them with him. After all, it was 5 days, and if conditions allowed, it would be much better to eat pork chops than cup noodles and biscuits. But it was problematic that the inventory didn¡¯t retain heat as it was sort of a mental presence. Yi Qiu brought spice packs and a stewing pot, so after pouring some water he could make some noodles. If he had time, he could heat up the pork chops too. ¡°Will you enter the battle map: Nightmare in the Ruins? Entering the battle will consume 250 Integrated Network Coins.¡± ¡°Yes¡± ¡°Consumed 250 Integrated Network Coins, teleporting into the battle map¡­¡± A familiar dizzy feeling¡­ When Yi Qiu woke up he was amongst relatively barren ruins. There were remaining bits of infrastructure around. Judging from the mostly complete buildings, the style of the architecture seemed to be Roman. They were built of stone, rough but big pieces. Even after being abandoned for a long time, one could still see the majesty this city had when it was up and running. As it was abandoned for too long, most of the buildings were in dilapidated. Observing the surrounding buildings, this was a market. Yi Qiu touched his bald head and after looking around, he focused his eyes on something. He realized that there was a notification posted on one of the parts of the ruins. ¡°Adventurer: This was a collection list from an alchemist. After you collect the items in the list, you can place them in a clay pot: 1: Giant spider poison sack 5 portions: 2. Red spider poison sack 5 portions: 3. White spider poison sack 5 portions: 4: White Fur Wolfman fur 100 portions: ¡­ ¡­ ¡± Yi Qiu looked at the clay pot and realized that there was an old-looking wooden basket. He touched his bald head and was too lazy to look at the notification. His main goal was to collect bloodline material, as for the others, they would be shelved aside. It didn¡¯t matter that the quest failed, anyway, he didn¡¯t come here for that reward. This battle map probably didn¡¯t give any rare items, just some gold coins. Since there were too few Integrated Network coin rewards from the dungeon, the forums would mainly reward one with coins for completing quests. Normally, one would do something for the living beings in the battle map like collect items or kill enemies. He looked around and walked deeper into the market. Since the area was covered in broken stones, there were creaking sounds when Yi Qiu walked. Since the buildings around were quite huge, even under the clear sunlight, the environment was a little dark. As the building collapsed, the broken parts formed large shadows. Yi Qiu frowned. Luckily, he had Blind Fighting, otherwise, he would have been very passive in such an environment. After all, spiders never relied on sight to capture prey. However, who knew whether the large spider would have any mutations. After moving forward carefully for some time, he finally noticed something. There was a human-shaped being hiding behind one of the shadows formed by a collapsed pillar. It was as if he knew that Yi Qiu had noticed him, after fidgeting a bit, there was the sound of a bowstring being released. ¡°Xiu!¡± ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ Chapter 53 ¡­ ¡­ A wooden arrow shot toward Yi Qiu from the darkness! Reflex Dodge! Yi Qiu¡¯s skin tightened and then he exploded to the side to dodge the arrow! ¡°Pu!¡± The wooden arrow stuck into the building behind Yi Qiu and stone shrapnel flew everywhere! The chance of Reflex Dodge successfully dodging was the highest when one was sneak attacked because that was when the Ki layer on his body was the most sensitive. During battle, the complicated infomation meant that the Ki layer wasn¡¯t so sensitive. After Yi Qiu stood still, he gathered Ki to open Eight Gates. Facing an unknown enemy, he would open it and fight first. As for that arrow, Yi Qiu felt that the person was at least someone he could handle. Yi Qiu squinted and his pupils slightly constricted. Eight Gates, Gate of Opening open! Power surged, and as for the pain, Yi Qiu was already used to it. ¡°Xiu!¡± Another arrow shot out of the darkness and Yi Qiu smashed it! After activating Eight Gates, the 16 Agility allowed him to determine the trajectory of the arrow. ¡°Pu!¡± With one punch, Yi Qiu destroyed the wooden arrow! Under the pressures of two huge powers, the arrow directly exploded. Yi Qiu charged right at the enemy in the shadows! As he became closer and closer, Yi Qiu understood what the enemy looked like: A human body covered in brown fur, its wolf-like head¡¯s green eyes were viciously staring at Yi Qiu. He had a wooden bow on his body which would be the one he used to shoot at Yi Qiu. He had a leather belt on his waist, and on it was a rough hook, probably to make it easier to grab the bow. Apart from the bow, he had a quiver of wooden arrows by his side. As Yi Qiu got close, he took out a dirty looking wolf-tooth bat and gave out an ugly expression to try to scare Yi Qiu away. Yi Qiu instantly thought about the Brown Fur Wolfman on the notification. If the amount to kill represented the strength of the monster then this should be the weakest one. Judging from the strength of the arrow, its strength wasn¡¯t low. Many thoughts flashed in Yi Qiu¡¯s mind. In the end, he kicked out! What surprised Yi Qiu was that the wolfman¡¯s reaction was really slow, and it was unable to effectively block it. The leg smacked right into wolfman¡¯s body! ¡°Peng!¡± Yi Qiu¡¯s kick sent Brown Fur Wolfman flying! The soft flesh and body made contact with the stone rubble, and fresh blood seeped out from its brown skin. ¡°Ang¡­¡± The Brown Fur Wolfman twisted his body in pain. Yi Qiu kicked it once more to end its pain. The Brown Fur Wolfman was really weird, and from the arrows it shot out, its strength wouldn¡¯t have been low. Yi Qiu guessed that its strength was around 13-14. But in front of Yi Qiu¡¯s strikes, the Brown Fur Wolfman¡¯s reaction wasn¡¯t really that strong. With his size and structure, to be able to give out 13-14 points in strength meant that his muscle structure was definitely developed. Even if his agility couldn¡¯t keep up with strength, agility didn¡¯t affect explosiveness. Even if he couldn¡¯t catch Yi Qiu¡¯s attacks, he should have still been able to block them. This was why Yi Qiu felt that the Brown Fur Wolfman was really uncoordinated. He touched his head and couldn¡¯t be bothered thinking about why such a weird monster would appear. Anyway, the wolfman wasn¡¯t Yi Qiu¡¯s target. Yi Qiu guessed that it should be a relatively obvious questline in the map. However, he wasn¡¯t interested in it now as he still didn¡¯t know where the giant spider was. After all, this was once a city, the scale of these ruins was huge. To search for a giant spider in such a complicated environment was indeed a relatively difficult matter. Although it wasn¡¯t like finding a needle in a haystack, at most in 10 days, if he didn¡¯t find any clues, even if he searched the entire ruins, then he still wouldn¡¯t find any clues of the giant spider. As many places were covered by collapsed structures, Yi Qiu was unable to head deep in. Yi Qiu didn¡¯t understand the giant spider¡¯s food chain. If there was enough food underground, maybe it would be hiding under the buildings. But considering its size, it would eat a lot. Yi Qiu guessed that there wouldn¡¯t be too much food underground. Based on the quest, the giant spider was at least noticed on the surface, so one shouldn¡¯t discount the possibility that it lived in one of the parts of the ruins. Thinking about it for half a day, he had no idea. Yi Qiu was prepared to stroll around¡­ ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ ¡°Hu hu.¡± Ka Lu¡¯s breathing was rushed but he still used his wide and slightly tan body to guard the girl behind him. These Brown Fur Wolfman were like elves in the Valley of Ice and Fire, one couldn¡¯t wipe them out. But what Ka Lu didn¡¯t expect was that the Brown Fur Wolfman actually had a leader. After all, this bunch didn¡¯t seem to have a brain and they dared to charge at anything they saw. Even with a leader, Ka Lu didn¡¯t fear these Brown Fur Wolfmen. They weren¡¯t worth him being fearful, he just had to be more careful to avoid their hesitant attacks. Even if double the number attacked, Ka Lu was confident¡­ that he could run¡­ Although ants biting an elephant to death was a fairytale-like analogy, if one fought to the death and didn¡¯t retreat, that situation might really happen. Ka Lu solemnly looked at the red wolfman who held a giant hammer. It was hard to imagine that a random being like the Brown Fur Wolfman would give rise to such a freak. Ka Lu felt that his strength wasn¡¯t too low, but this Red Fur Wolfman¡¯s strength made him feel like he was not up a worthy match. The Brown Fur Wolfman¡¯s size was like Lann, but this Red Fur Wolfman was at least the size of 2 Lanns. Ka Lu looked around at the Brown Fur Wolfman that slowly surrounded him. Although their strength increased after magic was used on them, their spoiled muscles and flesh caused their reactions to be slow. Thus, they weren¡¯t the problem. The real problem was the Red Fur Wolfman that strolled the outer areas. Its huge size and giant hammer caused its attack range to be huge. Ka Lu had to protect the girl behind him and so he was really reactive. ¡°Kong!¡± The Red Fur Wolfman gritted his teeth and showed a cruel expression. After roaring, it raised its giant hammer and smashed toward Ka Lu¡­ ¡°Peng!¡± ¡­ ¡­ Chapter 54 ¡­ ¡­ ¡°En?¡± Yi Qiu was searching for tracks of the Giant Spider in the ruins. This was when he suddenly heard a loud roar. Yi Qiu became really curious. He went around the ruins, and apart from facing one Brown Fur Wolfman, he didn¡¯t find anything at all. This was totally what one would have expected when one was among ruins. This was something Yi Qiu found weird. From the quest list, there wouldn¡¯t be less than 100 of them. There was also the White Fur Wolfman, so it shouldn¡¯t have been so quiet among these ruins. But after half a day, Yi Qiu didn¡¯t find anything As he stepped on the shattered stone on the ground, Yi Qiu increased his speed and ran toward the sound of the shout. When one didn¡¯t have a plan one would just go over to where the fun was. Who knows, there might even be an unexpected surprise. ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ Ka Lu used his hand to hold up the Red Wolfman¡¯s hammer. The huge momentum was spread to the ground, but this constant-strength battle consumed his stamina. Ka Lu suddenly used his strength, pushing aside the focused energy of the Red Wolfman to try to shift the hammer away. The Red Wolfman was forced back several steps but quickly regained stability. It didn¡¯t continue to attack, instead, it just dragged the hammer and continued to circle him. ¡°Cunning animal!¡± Ka Lu¡¯s face turned dark. This strategy was similar to how wolves would bite their prey and then back off; its intellect was totally unlike the brainless Brown Fur Wolfman. ¡°Is it the vanguard of the Demon Race?¡± Ka Lu panted as he thought. That was a very stamina consuming strategy and most of the time it was used in coordination with allies. After all, during that process, Ka Lu couldn¡¯t move at all and was unable to block any other attacks. After all, he only had two hands and to block the hammer required him to use his legs. Thus, he was unable to use either his legs or hands to attack¡­ ¡­ ¡­ Time ticked by and Ka Lu could sense the situation was getting worse and worse. He frowned, half an hour had passed since he sent the distress signal, but no one had come to save him. Just at that moment, he saw a bald man running out of the ruins? This bald man Yi Qiu, of course. After Yi Qiu ran out of the ruins, the scene became really silent. Yi Qiu himself was really shocked. Many Brown Fur Wolfmen stood in this square-like place. Yi Qiu felt that he had found the Brown Fur Wolfmen¡¯s nest. There was a 2-3 meter tall Red Fur Wolfman in it, and compared to the others, which were like little chicks, it stood out. In the brown-colored ocean of the Brown Fur Wolfman, there was a tan fellow who was around 2 meters tall. Behind him was a girl. The girl seemed unconscious, who knew why this was the case? The Brown Fur Wolfman looked at Yi Qiu with a stunned expression. As the Red Fur Wolfman shouted, all the Brown Fur Wolfman held up their bows and shot at Yi Qiu. ¡°Xiu!¡± ¡°Xiu!¡± ¡°Xiu!¡± ¡­ The wooden arrows rained down on Yi Qiu. The air was filled with the sounds of arrows piercing the air. They were relentless, and really like rain. Yi Qiu, ¡°???¡± Why didn¡¯t they shoot at that guy, why did they aim at him right away? Yi Qiu¡¯s pupils constricted and he directly activated his bloodline energy, and wind blew everywhere! Flying Sand! The energy currents went berserk and dust rose up from the ground. Like a giant being was being awakened, the aggressive dust bared its fangs and started to claw at the sky. The stone on the ground mixed with the wooden arrows, blowing toward one another, and instantly the scene became really chaotic. The wooden arrows were still okay, after all, the killing ability came from its momentum. Although the momentum from the wind was powerful, it was scattered, so only a portion of the arrows struck. The stones were different. They were the size of fists and heads, and they all had enough killing ability. Under the effects of the wind, the stones were like storms that struck the entire square! ¡°Ao!¡± ¡°Ang ang!¡± ¡­ The screams of the Brown Fur Wolfman could be heard from the dense dust fog. Yi Qiu touched his bald head and wore his protective glasses. The scene was really chaotic. The flying dust covered the entire area, and the falling stones hurt numerous Brown Fur Wolfman. Yi Qiu touched his bald head, he didn¡¯t expect that Flying Sand would have such an effect in this environment. ¡°Peng!¡± Ka Lu shattered a piece of stone that flew toward him. Looking at the chaotic environment, he hugged the girl behind him and started to run. He punched the Brown Fur Wolfman that was blocking him aside. He was like a road roller rolling forward. ¡°Kong!¡± The Red Fur Wolfman roared furiously, but maybe because it was worried about something, it didn¡¯t order the Brown Fur Wolfman to shoot again. It just stared at Yi Qiu and Ka Lu with its cold eyes¡­ ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ ¡°Hu hu.¡± Ka Lu sat on a fallen pillar and panted. He had consumed a lot of stamina and carried that girl for a few kilometers. Even Ka Lu, who was quite strong, was a little tired. ¡°I am Ka Lu, a member of Kuhan Mercenary Group, thank you for your support.¡± Ka Lu stretched out his tan hand and then said his name with confidence. ¡°Yi Qiu, I¡¯m an adventurer.¡± Yi Qiu stretched out his hand to fist bump him. Ka Lu¡¯s hand was at least twice of Yi Qiu¡¯s. When they fist-bumped, the difference was really obvious. ¡°Adventurer?¡± Ka Lu didn¡¯t understand. ¡°Similar to mercenaries, I got a job from an alchemist, he needs some ingredients from the Giant Spider to do some experiments.¡± Yi Qiu spoke casually, it was weird to speak truthfully to people in the battle map. One wouldn¡¯t know if they were a consciousness born from the Integrated Network or someone from a real plane. He was talking in a weird language while he was speaking in proper Chinese, but they were still able to converse flawlessly. After the battle, they would never meet like passers-by in life. But in the battle map, they were extremely close to one another. In other words, it was a really special experience. Yi Qiu felt that it was really interesting, a whole new experience. ¡°Giant Spider? But that isn¡¯t easy to deal with. Their attacks are really rushed and intense, very few can win against their blade-like claws.¡± ¡°If you want to face them, you can head to the abandoned temple region, sometimes they will appear there.¡± Ka Lu pointed to the ruins in the distance. Yi Qiu looked out toward his large finger and saw the remnants of a building¡­ ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ Chapter 55 ¡­ ¡­ As Ka Lu was in a rush to bring the girl to treatment, after resting, he said goodbye to Yi Qiu. Thus, Yi Qiu headed to the abandoned temple ruins that Ka Lu mentioned. Ka Lu invited him to Kuhan, but Yi Qiu had rejected the offer. His target was the Giant Spider and heading to Kuhan wouldn¡¯t do much to help his goal. He didn¡¯t face enemies along the way. After walking for half an hour, he was able to see the temple from afar. In a pile of building rubble, this old looking temple still stood there, it was standing out from everything else. Yi Qiu could sense the amount of hard work and effort the guy who built it had put in. This building was totally different from the ones around it. Two huge pillars supported the main body of the temple that was covered in dust. Even after a hundred years, it would be able to complete its responsibility. Yi Qiu frowned. He took out the Cyborg Cowhead Monster King Brassart and equipped it. Thinking about it, he took out a bottle of Hell Cowhead Monster¡¯s Magnificence, using the power of the potion, he could try to open the Gate of Life. However, before he reached the final moment, he didn¡¯t think about trying out such an extreme action. After all, he wouldn¡¯t have excess strength to pick up the spoils every time. Relying on potions to amass enough stats such that he could support Eight Gates was a really dangerous thing. He might faint from the pain before he even managed to attack. Yi Qiu placed the Hell Cowhead Monster¡¯s Magnificence in his pocket. If the situation was too bad and he had no chance to escape, then he would just go all out. It was worth mentioning that the Hell Cowhead Monster¡¯s Magnificence was a blue potion, held in a glass bottle. However, this bottle could be consumed, although the taste might not be any good. But at the crucial moment, one could just shatter the glass and drink it. The glass had a type of element that would react with a human¡¯s saliva. In a very short time, it could turn from a hard shape into a soft gel-like thing. Moreover, it could still perfectly wrap up the potion within. If one was afraid of there being no time to shatter it, one could even place the potion into one¡¯s mouth first. In a short time, it would turn into gel, and one just needed to store it in their mouth. When needed, one would just swallow it. The gel would melt in the digestive tract and expose the potion within, allowing it to take effect very quickly. A wizard invented this potion because he wanted to be able to drink that kind of noble creation when he was doing indescribable things. After all, to suddenly stop to cast a spell or take out a blue potion to drink just felt quite weird. Some Integrated Network wizard players realized this and brought it into the Integrated Network, becoming the basic ingredient to make potions. ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ The land near the temple was quite complicated. Maybe because this was where the nobles gathered, there were many buildings that were concentrated in this region. The buildings of these noble families weren¡¯t as old as the temple, but the collapsed rubble made it tough for Yi Qiu to walk. ¡°Hu.¡± After jumping across a collapsed outer wall, Yi Qiu wanted to rest. Carefully walking for so long made him a little tired. It wasn¡¯t his physical but his mental stamina that was being depleted. After all, if he wasn¡¯t careful, he would be crushed by several tonnes of stone. It was no different from walking in the air on thin metal strings. If one didn¡¯t pay attention, one would be on a one way trip to heaven¡­ The temple was right in front of him, but it still took a really long time for him to head forward. Yi Qiu predicted that in just 1-2 hours he would pass this large amount of rubble. Some of them looked really strong and firm, but when Yi Qiu passed they would suddenly collapse. Without Reflex Dodge he probably wouldn¡¯t end up in a good state. Thus, Yi Qiu had to proceed really carefully. When passing those weak-looking broken walls, he threw a few pieces of stone to test them out. If he could make them collapse, he would. If not, when he was crushed by a full building, the scene would look really bad. Just at that moment, his eyes became serious. He noticed something interesting. Under a broken wall, there was some brown leather. Although it was covered in dust and looked really old, it seemed out of place compared to the buildings around, like they weren¡¯t from the same era. Yi Qiu kicked the piece of leather and instantly two empty voids stared at him. It was the leather of a Brown Fur Wolfman. It was the leather of its entire upper body like something had sucked its blood and bones dry, leaving the empty leather behind. Yi Qiu instantly thought back to when he watched Animal Kingdom, spiders would wrap their prey with silk and then inject digestive juices, which would melt the bones and bodies of the prey. The spider would use its straw-like mouth to suck the prey dry until it was left with an empty shell. ¡°Giant Spider?¡± Yi Qiu played around with the empty wolf fur, and he noticed two empty holes on its head. Yi Qiu compared it with his hand and found that it was actually bigger than his fist. His expression became solemn. Just thinking about it made Yi Qiu feel a huge amount of pressure. Humans instinctively feared spiders. In truth, apart from a few poisonous ones, a large portion of them didn¡¯t threaten humans. So, this was instinctively a really weird thing. It was a similar case with snakes too; it was normal to be afraid of snakes. Whether it was their slithery bodies or colorful scales, or their lethal venom, they all made people terrified. But one¡¯s fear of spiders made no sense at all. Until today, Yi Qiu felt his entire head go numb just thinking about a spider with such a huge feeding tube. He understood why humans instinctively feared spiders. Maybe human ancestors suffered from being hunted by such large spiders which was why they would be left with thousands of years of fear¡­ Suddenly! Yi Qiu felt the ground shake, the dust on the buildings all around started to shake off¡­ ¡°Peng!¡± Countless pieces of stone flew everywhere, and a giant shadow drilled out from the building and pounced toward Yi Qiu! Instantly, Yi Qiu felt a black shadow cover the entire area in front of him¡­ Chapter 56 ¡­ ¡­ Yi Qiu¡¯s pupils constricted, and the aura of death was so thick, the Ki layer on his skin became exceptionally sensitive¡­ Reflex Dodge! Yi Qiu¡¯s legs shook, in that moment, he avoided the suppressing attack of the black shadow. ¡°Peng!¡± Shrapnel flew everywhere, causing pelting sounds on the surrounding buildings. A black shadow could be seen through the thick dust. Yi Qiu was too close and was hit by some pieces of stone. But because the Ki layer protected him, Yi Qiu didn¡¯t suffer any damage. Yi Qiu stared at the black shadow in the dust. After some of it disappeared, a Giant Spider appeared in front of his eyes: It was roughly 3 meters tall, like an enlarged version of the Chinese Wolf Spider but its limbs were much thicker and wider. The claws on its limbs were as sharp as blades, giving off a metallic glow. The grey and white pieces of shell had thick hair growing out of them.] Its eight eyes were like black jewels, one was unable to observe any emotions. It wasn¡¯t vicious nor gentle, giving off an ice-like aura, it was so emotionless that it made one feel completely terrified. The Giant Spider hurried out and appeared in front of him, but the situation gave him a bad feeling. The Giant Spider stared quietly at Yi Qiu and didn¡¯t do anything. It was as if that strike just now was just an illusion. But the dust flying about and smacking his face awakened him and he recognized that this was not an illusion. He was about to face his strongest enemy to date. The Cyborg Cowhead Monster King was definitely bigger than this Giant Spider, but it wasn¡¯t a real enemy as Yi Qiu had never fought it head-on. Yi Qiu squinted his eyes, and he started to gather and activate the Ki in his body. He didn¡¯t understand why the Giant Spider didn¡¯t do anything after coming out but he had to seize the chance to open Eight Gates, otherwise, he would have no chance of even fighting back. Eight Gates, Gate of Opening open! Yi Qiu¡¯s pupils constricted, and the explosive power surged once more. But this time, the power didn¡¯t give him any sense of security. The Blind Fighting let Yi Qiu see the direction the Giant Spider was heading in. However, Yi Qiu¡¯s human instincts caused him to be terrified. Compared to the Brown Tooth Boar and the Cowhead Monster, that were the same size, the Giant Spider seemed to be much more threatening and instilled more fear. Opening Eight Gates meant that he couldn¡¯t drag this battle. Each second consumed large amounts of life value. ¡°Zeng!¡± Yi Qiu took in a deep breath and his legs exploded forward right at the Giant Spider! ¡°Xiu!¡± As Yi Qiu moved, the Giant Spider was like a poisonous snake that came out of its hole, stretching out two spear-like limbs that sliced at Yi Qiu! Although the natural field of sight meant that Yi Qiu was unable to sense the giant limbs, the Ki layer formed by Reflex Dodge sensed it! Reflex Dodge! Yi Qiu suddenly stopped, changing angles right away. The two limbs of the Giant Spider pinned into the ground beside Yi Qiu! ¡°Peng!¡± Stone flew everywhere and dust rose into the air. However, Yi Qiu didn¡¯t stop and continued to charge at the Giant Spider! Suddenly! An evil wind struck him! Before he was able to react, he was hit by another leg of the Giant Spider! ¡°Peng!¡± Yi Qiu smashed into one of the pieces of stone! Although the remnants of the buildings were made of stone, they were old and inside it had been corroded by wind, causing many cracks. As Yi Qiu smashed into it, the seemingly sturdy stone piece broke into pieces! *Cough* Yi Qiu felt like he had been hit by a car; it was like his bones had shifted. Thanks to the armor and Douqi Strike protecting him, his arm wasn¡¯t badly injured. But because Douqi Strike focused Ki in the arm that he was about to strike with, his leg wasn¡¯t protected and it broke right away. Yi Qiu struggled up from the rubble, but due to the excruciating pain in his chest and legs, he failed to get up. He lost feeling in many areas. ¡°Peng!¡± ¡°Peng!¡± ¡°Peng!¡± ¡­ ¡­ The sound of the Giant Spider attacking crazily spread from far away. Yi Qiu finally saw its strike patterns clearly. Its four legs held up its body, the crab-like pincers beside it were like large spears poked into the ground. Then, one of the legs below the spear would strike! Yi Qiu was swept away by such a strike, the giant momentum far exceeded his strength. Yi Qiu was unable to discern how much strength the Giant Spider had. This was because if the difference in stat was more than a single point, he definitely couldn¡¯t find against something with a few times more strength. Unless one had skills to support, it would be tough to stand one¡¯s ground in front of someone with such a difference in stats. Yi Qiu took out Hell Cowhead Monster¡¯s Magnificence with much difficulty. Truthfully, to do such a thing while wearing the Cyborg Cowhead Monster King¡¯s Brassart was really tough. ¡°Si!¡± Taking out Hell Cowhead Monster¡¯s Magnificence tugged at his injured muscles, causing an intense pain which made him heave in a deep cold breath. ¡°Hu.¡± Yi Qiu gulped it down. It tasted a little weird but quickly a fiery feeling rose up in his body. ¡°You have consumed Hell Cowhead Monster¡¯s Magnificence, your physique has increased to: 16.¡± ¡°Potion time: 9 Minutes, 54 seconds.¡± Two green notifications appeared on Yi Qiu¡¯s retina screen, on the status column there was one more Cowhead Monster roaring picture¡¯s buff. Due to the effects of Totem Power, Yi Qiu¡¯s recovery speed exceeded the speed of someone who had 17 Physique. Based on the Integrated Network, each increase in stat was 0.5 times that of one stat before. Yi Qiu¡¯s recovery speed was 17 times that of a normal person. His Life Value that had reached red started to increase. This was because 17 Physique exceeded the upper limit of opening Gate of Opening. Thus, his health wouldn¡¯t drop. Between the Gate of Life and Gate of Opening, there was a physique upper limit. When one reached that, one¡¯s life value wouldn¡¯t drop. Of course, the damage to the body still existed. But because one¡¯s recovery and tolerance increased, such damage wouldn¡¯t cause much of a burden to the person. The Giant Spider stopped its crazy and pointless attacks, so the ruins suddenly quietened down¡­ ¡­ ¡­ Chapter 57 ¡­ ¡­ The Giant Spider used its cold eyes to sweep around. Although Yi Qiu knew that a spider¡¯s field of sight wasn¡¯t reliable, he had no idea if this Giant Spider had such characteristics. The Giant Spider started to climb about the ruins, its sharp legs and dense hair allowed its movement to be totally silent. The Giant Spider climbed a high building, opened its mouth, and its clamp-like teeth roared. However, Yi Qiu didn¡¯t hear a sound. Suddenly, its eight eyes all looked over at Yi Qiu! Instantly, Yi Qiu felt like the Giant Spider had locked onto him, and he felt a chill down his spine. ¡°Peng!¡± The Giant Spider jumped off the building remnants! It quickly drew close to Yi Qiu! ¡°Hu.¡± Looking at the Giant Spider that had gotten close, Yi Qiu knew that he had to risk his life. Whether he lived or died depended on what he did now. Yi Qiu closed his eyes and stopped looking at the Giant Spider. He focused on activating the Ki in his body¡­ When the Gate of Opening was opened, the Ki flow was evidently much faster. Yi Qiu started to move the Ki toward the Gate of Healing on the right of his head. Eight Gates, Gate of Healing open! An even more intense power surged from within his body. Yi Qiu had opened the Gate of Healing once when he faced the Elite difficulty Sadistic Dog-Head Man. That time, he died right away¡­ This time, he opened it while having 16 points of physique, making it much simpler. However, the pain was still really intense¡­ ¡°Si¡­¡± The muscles on Yi Qiu¡¯s face twitched but he had to open it. 17 Strength might not have been enough, but Yi Qiu had only one chance to attack. The Ki in Yi Qiu¡¯s body swept everywhere. This power that had a mind of its own seemed gentle, but when it went berserk, it was like a raging wave that swallowed up the ground! Gate of Life was at the chest, it was one of the gates that was closest to the Gate of Death, it was the final safe region of the Eight Gates¡­ It connected the brain and the body, connecting Life and Death¡­ Eight Gates¡­ Life¡­ Gate¡­ ¡­. Open! ! ! ¡°Hong!¡± Green veins appeared on Yi Qiu¡¯s face! He opened his eyes! After a pained roar, an intense energy current exploded out, with him at the center! The dust and stone around rose up in the air and formed a thick smoke cloud! A pale green light appeared on Yi Qiu¡¯s body. It was so strong that Yi Qiu¡¯s muscles started to twitch and his whole body was filled with power! At this moment, his Strength and Agility both reached 18 points! He was just 2 points away from the max of normal living beings, he had 25 times more power than normal people! ¡°Ah¡­¡± But at the same time, a flood-like pain swallowed him up! Yi Qiu¡¯s body twitched and he was even unable to even do simple movements like moving his fingers! ¡°Hong!¡± The Giant Spider that drew close had sped through the dust storm, pouncing toward Yi Qiu like he was its prey. ¡°Peng!¡± The leg of the Giant Spider stuck onto Yi Qiu¡¯s shoulder! It was like two giant nails pinning him to the ground! Even in the intense pain, Yi Qiu could sense the cold and deathly stare of the Giant Spider! The Giant Spider pressed its head close to Yi Qiu, and its eight jewel-like eyes stared at Yi Qiu¡¯s struggling body. It opened its two clamps and then stretched out its leg to inject poison, stabbing right into the Yi Qiu¡¯s head! ¡°Dang!¡± ¡°Si¡­¡± It was like metal striking into metal. The Giant Spider swung Yi Qiu away, and the relatively weaker claw smacked into Yi Qiu¡¯s firm head. The sensitive nerves on its claws experienced an intense pain! The Giant Spider¡¯s sweep let Yi Qiu struggle out from all the intense pain, but his chest and leg injuries caused him to lose mobility caused, leaving him with no chance to strike at all. He could only calm down while in pain. He was waiting, waiting for a chance to deal a lethal strike! The Giant Spider gave out a ¡°Si Si¡± sound. It seemed like the pain was quite unbearable. As the overlord of the ruins, the Giant Spider hadn¡¯t suffered such pain in such a long time. Large amounts of Brown Fur Wolfman were chased into the abandoned ruins by humans. To the strong but slow Brown Fur Wolfman, the Giant Spider was able to hunt them easily. The Spider¡¯s digestive ability wasn¡¯t strong which was why it needed to turn its prey into liquid form to absorb it. The Giant Spider inherited the digestive ability of spiders, but its digestive poison didn¡¯t strengthen because of that. To melt an entire Brown Fur Wolfman into liquid would require a long time. During that period of time, the Giant Spider wouldn¡¯t be able to leave as it had no ability to make webs. It couldn¡¯t ensure that the prey wouldn¡¯t run or get stolen by other living beings. Thus, even after it finished eating a Brown Fur Wolfman, it would still need to hunt. When the prey was melting from the poison, the Giant Spider would almost be totally starved. Apart from hunting, the Giant Spider would mostly be hiding under the ruins. Thus, the Giant Spider had digging ability. In a region ruled by strong and big living beings, the Giant Spider mostly hid underground and hunted unlucky prey. Of course, the Giant Spider didn¡¯t need to use such a method in the ruins. It just needed to pounce to grab some Brown Fur Wolfman. It waved its limbs to chase away the other Wolfmen that tried to assist and whose brains were messed up by magic. ¡°Si si¡­¡± The Giant Spider waved its limbs and after cutting down a building it calmed down. After roaring, it swiftly noticed Yi Qiu. It pounced like a black shadow¡­ ¡°Pu!¡± The Giant Spider¡¯s leg pinned into Yi Qiu¡¯s chest, nearly piercing his heart. But this pain didn¡¯t even make Yi Qiu frown as his senses were already numb from the intense pain¡­ The Giant Spider got close to Yi Qiu. He could smell the decomposing smell emanating from the body of the Giant Spider¡­ Its eight eyes were just a few millimeters away from him. Yi Qiu could clearly see his own image, like those eight eyes were like mirrors. The Giant Spider stretched out its pincers once more, but instead of sticking them into Yi Qiu¡¯s head, it went around Yi Qiu¡¯s body¡­ From head to face¡­ From face to neck¡­ Yi Qiu could sense that wet feeling, a sweet but lethal aura¡­ Finally, when it passed the neck and chest, it sensed some soft flesh. The Giant Spider¡¯s pincer stuck right in! ¡­ ¡­ Chapter 58 ¡­ ¡­ Just at that moment! Cyborg Cowhead Monster King¡¯s rage! A red light appeared on Cyborg Cowhead Monster King¡¯s Brassart. Yi Qiu beared with the intense pain and punched out! This punch condensed all his strength and rage! With 18 points of strength along with Cyborg Cowhead Monster King¡¯s Rage¡¯s 40% strength buff, he was pretty much at 19 points of strength! This was nearly a normal person¡¯s strongest strike! ¡°Peng!!¡± First, were a few bits of armor twisted under the huge pressure, breaking apart. Then, the shrapnel either flew everywhere or caved in from Yi Qiu¡¯s strike. Under the firm armor was soft flesh. Yi Qiu¡¯s brassart didn¡¯t face any resistance at all, it was like a hot knife slicing through butter, and Yi Qiu¡¯s brassart sunk deep in! ¡°Pu!¡± Liquid spurted everywhere! Yi Qiu¡¯s brassart stopped, and an explosive power directly burst in the Giant Spider¡¯s body! After a heavy blow, the eight jewel-like eyes of the Giant Spider seemed to lose their luster¡­ ¡°You have killed Giant Spider, your battle evaluation has obtained a large increase¡­¡± ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ ¡°Hong!¡± Like heaven and earth was breaking apart, the Giant Spider slowly fell¡­ It was fortunate that the Giant Spider didn¡¯t fall toward Yi Qiu, otherwise, Yi Qiu could basically just surrender and give up. Yi Qiu fell to the ground. Even if his recovery speed with Totem Power had exceeded 17 times that of normal people, the intense pain and full blow had used up all his strength¡­ Yi Qiu felt like his eyelids weighed a tonne. His stamina had recovered a little, but his exhausted mind was not enough to support any of his actions¡­ Yi Qiu was overcome with fatigue, but he knew that he couldn¡¯t fall asleep. If he did, then all the effort would be wasted¡­ Yi Qiu tried his best to keep his eyes open. The bag that the Giant Spider dropped was not far away from him, roughly 3 meters. Monsters in the battle map wouldn¡¯t drop chests, but they would drop a killing bag that was even rarer. Chests would only drop items that had similar keywords to them of the same level and quality. This meant that all the items in the Integrated Network that met these conditions could be dropped. As for the killing bags, the items dropped were within the constraints of the Integrated Network, but they would be rarer, sometimes dropping some special items. Yi Qiu tried to grab the killing bag dropped by the Giant Spider, but he was too far away and the movement tugged at the wound on his chest. The excruciating pain intensified, but at that moment Yi Qiu was already numb¡­ His life value dropped slowly. Yi Qiu had closed Eight Gates but the injuries were too great, causing his life value to drop¡­ Flying Sand! His two legs had turned into cotton after the two strikes from the Giant Spider, but he didn¡¯t have enough reach. Yi Qiu could only try to use the wind to blow the bag over to the Giant Spider. Fortunately, Flying Sand consumed bloodline energy which had no direct relationship with stamina and mind. Thus, Yi Qiu was able to use it really simply. Instantly, the wind danced on the square. When Yi Qiu opened the Gate of Opening, the stones were swept aside, so the Flying Sand didn¡¯t cause much chaos. When Yi Qiu saved that girl, Nan Xiaolu, he tried to use Flying Sand to affect the wind. Although he wasn¡¯t familiar with it, this was not his first time. After shifting the wind with much difficulty, a portion of the Giant Spider¡¯s carcass and the dropped killing bag moved in Yi Qiu¡¯s direction¡­ ¡°You have obtained Giant Spider¡¯s Killing Bag. ¡± When Yi Qiu looked at this green notification on his retina screen, he was at ease and closed his eyes¡­ ¡°Hong!¡± ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ ¡°Character died, tabulating battle map rewards.¡± ¡°Uncompleted: Alchemist collection quest, did not reach evaluation standards.¡± ¡°Uncompleted: Kill little ghost Alchemist, did not reach evaluation standards.¡± ¡­ ¡­ ¡°Complete: Goddess¡¯s prelude, evaluation increased, current battle evaluation: C.¡± ¡­ ¡­ ¡°Killed 1 Brown Fur Wolfman, battle evaluation increased: current battle evaluation: C.¡± ¡°¡­¡± ¡°Killed Giant Spider, battle evaluation increased, current battle evaluation: B.¡± ¡­ ¡°Battle evaluation completed.¡± ¡°Based on character level, you have obtained 1500 Experience.¡± ¡°Due to battle evaluation, you have obtained 2000 Integrated Network Coins.¡± ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ Yi Qiu rested on his sofa and looked at his laptop. He was slightly used to the soul weakness but it was still tough to bear. He had reached his goal of this battle. When Yi Qiu woke up on earth, he opened the Killing Bag right away. There was one more large difference between a chest and the Killing Bag: The items inside were fixed when dropped, but not for the chest. Before the chest was opened the items inside were unknown. If one had x-ray vision, one would notice that the chest would be empty, but the item inside the bag was already there. The Killing Bag was in truth just a bag of loot dropped from the monsters. After all, if the loot all fell to the ground like games, then it would be extremely hard to find. If small items like rings fell into some holes in the map, then it would be easy to miss out on them. In the end, Yi Qiu got 2 items from the Killing Bag: ¡°Giant Spider Bloodline Material and Spider King Heavy Armor.¡± The Bloodline Material was the heavy attack bloodline material that Yi Qiu needed. The Spider King Heavy Armor was a green chest plate that was Level 7. However, Yi Qiu wasn¡¯t interested in it at all. Monk¡¯s skills focused on light armor or no armor so this chest plate was not suitable for him. In terms of defense, Yi Qiu felt like leather or cloth was not bad, but the overall defense wasn¡¯t that great. Raising his Monk level was of importance because once his level increased, then he wouldn¡¯t need such defensive items. ¡­ ¡­ He looked at the web pages and he was thinking about a lot of random things. Just at that moment, a column jumped out in the laptop: ¡°February 1997, to spread our city¡¯s traditions, to follow the country¡¯s new policy of changing city names, our city will use our traditional name: Juzhou City¡­¡± Chapter 59 ¡­ ¡­ ¡°Juzhou City?¡± Yi Qiu closed the curtains. So be it, anyway it was just a name. City C or Juzhou City, no matter what it was called, it wouldn¡¯t be of much difference to a normal person. But it would be tough for the Chinese faculty students this year. After all, if the teachers decided to set a question like the origin of Juzhou City¡¯s name, it would be a really tough problem. After all, the younger generation had no idea about the ancient name of the city¡­ Be it City C or Juzhou City, this city was still the same. The soul weakness time in the battle map was much longer than the soul weakness in the dungeon. Due to his current level and physique, his soul weakness state would last for 48 hours. Yi Qiu closed his laptop. It was already the 30th of the month and there wasn¡¯t anything interesting on the internet. City C had a really shallow new years feel to it, the only thing they could feel was that a lot of shops were closed. But all of this had nothing to do with Yi Qiu. He just wanted to grow some arms to continue to clear dungeons and level up. The battle with the Giant Spider let Yi Qiu realize that his battle system was lacking in many areas. Becoming stronger was an interesting and tough process, but Yi Qiu really enjoyed it. He had gathered all the required materials to activate Six Arms. Yi Qiu opened the Integrated Network interface and activated Six Arms¡­ ¡°Will you activate the Bloodline Ability: Six Arms?¡± ¡°Yes!¡± ¡°Checking Bloodline Ability requirements¡­¡± ¡°Heavy attack Bloodline Material (1/1), requirements met.¡± ¡°Quick Regeneration Bloodline Material (5/5), requirements met.¡± ¡°Conditions met, activating bloodline ability¡­¡± Yi Qiu could sense a slight change happening in his body, but he was unable to pinpoint it¡­ ¡°Bloodline Ability activated, Bloodline Ability: Six Arms has come alive.¡± ¡°You obtained Bloodline Ability: Six Arms.¡± Six Arms: Consume some Integrated Network Experience (Based on human stats, level, and ability to determine the number of arms that can form), in 10 natural days (for each arm that grows through this ability, the time to grow another one will double), to form an arm, this arm is a natural weapon, enjoying unarmed attack buffs. One can at most have 6 extra arms. ¡°It can finally begin¡­¡± Yi Qiu touched his bald head. As the core ability of Totem Power, Six Arms was something that Yi Qiu craved. Bloodline Model was one of the important sources of strength in the early stages. Normally speaking, it was best the earlier one obtained it. For example, for Six Arms, the amount of experience that one arm consumed increased based on stats and one¡¯s level. It took time to grow the arms too. Thus, Yi Qiu felt that the Cow Totem Bloodline Model fit his ability, and there was also room for improvement which was why he chose to transform into it. After all, time waited for no man. Truth proved that the few Bloodline Abilities of the Cow Totem gave Yi Qiu a lot of help. Be it faster recovery or the Flying Sand skill, it also gave him the Copper Skull Iron Head which reduced one¡¯s lethal damage area. This was why Yi Qiu was prepared to grow more arms now. ¡°Due to your stats and level, you need to consume 10,000 experience to grow your first arm, will you grow it?¡± ¡°Yes.¡± ¡°Consumed 10,000 Integrated Network experience, growing the first arm¡­¡± ¡°Time till arm grows: 239 Hours 59 Minutes¡­¡± Yi Qiu could sense the numbing feeling on his right shoulder, but till now it wasn¡¯t too unbearable. After all, the soul weakness feeling was still covering Yi Qiu. After experiencing all kinds of pain, Yi Qiu¡¯s tolerance to pain had become much higher. ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ Yi Qiu opened and checked his laptop as he was really bored. All the usual people went home for the new year so the forum was empty. Qiuming Mountain¡¯s path was totally empty, and it was left with only tire marks. He touched his bald head and was prepared to take a walk in the park. Boss Chen had gone home for the new year. This small district was totally silent. Yi Qiu shrugged his shoulders, he had 13 physique and wore an autumn shirt. Due to soul weakness, he actually felt cold from the chill wind. But it was okay as he was immune to all illnesses. As long as he didn¡¯t feel too bad, even if he was in a soul weakness state, he wouldn¡¯t get a cold. The important thing was to strengthen the structure of his body¡¯s surface so that no illness could enter his body. The strengthening of the body¡¯s immune system was slightly weaker. Once he reached Level 11 and learned Diamond Body, his immune system would be strengthened and he would be totally immune. Any type of poison, even if it broke through his surface defense system, his strong immune system would digest it or ignite the Ki hidden in his immune cells to excrete it out of the body. In truth, the Diamond Body was immune to all poisons. Many things in Integrated Network proved that the moment a Monk learned Diamond Body, it was immune to all sorts of poison. After taking a stroll in the empty city district, Yi Qiu saw a new bubble tea shop on the side street. More importantly however, the shop was actually still open. Yi Qiu touched his pockets, he did bring some money, so he was ready to go drink some coke or something. Who knew whether that shop had coke? Some bubble tea shops didn¡¯t provide any coke. As for drinks, Yi Qiu loved drinking coke. Bubble tea was too sweet for him and he could barely finish a cup. This bubble tea shop wasn¡¯t large and it was in one of the small alleys. Beside it, was the park and the other side was connected to the back street. It was pincered between silence and noise. The name of the shop was One Person¡¯s Bubble Tea Shop, it was indeed quite interesting. Although it was small, it had a thick wooden door, giving off a very different feeling. Yi Qiu pushed open the door and a wind chime rang. He opened the door and the first thing he saw was an exquisite drink menu. Yi Qiu took a look and realized that there was no coke¡­ He looked at the counter and right away he was stunned. ¡°So it¡¯s her¡­¡± ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ Chapter 60 ¡­ ¡­ ¡°Hi sir, what would you like to drink?¡± The female boss smiled and asked. ¡°Do you have coke?¡± He casually asked. Yi Qiu was stunned for less than 0.5 seconds before he came to his senses. She had black hair, bright eyes, and a silent aura. She gave off a gentle and well-behaved feeling. If it wasn¡¯t the person with the surname Yu, who he saw in Boss Chen¡¯s supermarket, then who else would it be? ¡°I am sorry, but the shop doesn¡¯t provide coke.¡± The boss said as she smiled. She wore a white fur dress and judging from the closed laptop on her knees, she was probably watching a movie before Yi Qiu came. ¡°Apart from milk tea, do you have anything else?¡± Yi Qiu touched his bald head and found a chair to sit down. The shop was small; there was only a small counter table and a chair. What surprised Yi Qiu was that the place offered a really good view. The table faced the glass window beside the wooden door. The glass window was one-directional, and the winter sunlight shone right in, giving off a gentle yellow glow. ¡°What about fruit juice?¡± The boss smiled and replied. ¡°Sure, give me one cup.¡± Yi Qiu said as he touched his bald head. He wasn¡¯t uneasy but because of his soul weakness and the numb feeling from his right shoulder, it caused all the feelings in his heart to disappear. ¡°Okay, please give me a moment.¡± ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ Today was the 30th, the heavens were nice and the sunlight after noon was really bright. Yi Qiu rested on the wall and slowly drank the fruit juice. He then thought about his developmental plans. Six Arms ability was activated but it took time to grow the arms. The first arm took 10 days to grow and the second one would take 20 days. From the current situation, one wouldn¡¯t feel too comfortable when growing arms. If one did a dungeon under such a circumstance it would feel really bad. But Yi Qiu didn¡¯t want to waste too much time on earth, after all that would be a waste of dungeon entry numbers. Apart from the Wolf Pup Cave, Yi Qiu could open a new solo dungeon now. In the Integrated Network level system, there was a step up after every 5 levels. Dungeons after Level 5 would become much stronger and the cooldown time would extend to 3 days. The first cooldown still didn¡¯t change and remained at 7 days. Dungeons before Level 5 were trials and training, the highest difficulty was only elite. From level 5 to 10 were the adventure grade dungeons. The highest difficulty would be the Boss level. Different from the Training dungeons, the Adventurer dungeons would only have rewards for the first clearing. Regarding Adventurer Grade dungeons, even if one passed the Boss difficulty dungeon, it wouldn¡¯t disappear. Of course, similar to the Training Grade dungeons, the final reward would be huge. As for dungeon settings after Level 10, Yi Qiu didn¡¯t take a close look at them. Level 5 to 10 was a relatively long process. During this period of time, the early to mid-battle systems of the class would be settled. Thus, apart from leveling up, Yi Qiu had to start to plan and upgrade his skills. Yi Qiu was thinking about whether to wait for a safer battle map world or to wait for his arm to grow out once the soul weakness ended. After all, if he waited on earth, he would waste too much development time. Yi Qiu didn¡¯t feel much sense of danger or any desire to become the strongest on earth. Especially once one¡¯s growth could be quantified, that kind of feeling was hard to describe. To become strong just to become strong seemed blind and empty, but this joy wasn¡¯t something that other people could understand¡­ ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ The boss rested on the table and looked at her laptop. The yellow light shone down on her face, causing her to look like a fixed painting. She gave off a really gentle aura that made him almost feel drunk. Yi Qiu looked at the lady boss from behind. Yi Qiu squinted his eyes and suddenly felt that the soul weakness and numbing feeling in his right arm had reduced by a lot. He felt really relaxed and his muscles that were tight from the intense battles slowly relaxed. ¡°This girl¡¯s charm has to be at least 14.¡± Such a thought flashed in Yi Qiu¡¯s mind. After all, if the boss¡¯s charm was lower than his senses, his heart wouldn¡¯t be tempted at all. There were around 7 billion people on earth, naturally, there would be many people who were born with different and above-average stats. Talented couldn¡¯t totally describe them. The term Son of Heaven that had been overused was the only thing that was worth their talent. Some were even close to 20 points. Of course, most of the time that was charm and intelligence. Strength and agility were never the strong points of a human. To large species, strength and agility¡¯s use was far from the usefulness of charm and intelligence. This was decided by the law of the jungle. Evolution supported the suitable people and not the strong feeding on the weak. Even creatures as strong as dinosaurs were wiped out perfectly demonstrated this point¡­ To an individual, it was more uncertain¡­ Strength and agility wouldn¡¯t be less useful than intelligence and charm. Especially since one could gather power into one¡¯s body, the value of charm wasn¡¯t too extraordinary¡­ Yi Qiu shifted his eyes from the boss¡¯s back. He downed the fruit juice and was prepared to go and train. With his strength reaching 14, his progress in Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique seemed to be getting quicker and quicker. Yi Qiu felt like he was about to reach the second stage. After he merged with the Bloodline Material of the Hell Cowhead Monster King, he was prepared to focus on merging with senses and physique Bloodline Materials. After all, senses affected his fighting ability no less than strength and agility. Apart from using Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique to increase strength, he could also use Eight Gates to make up for it. Although one could raise physique using the Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique too, its main advantage was strength and agility. Yi Qiu could raise physique and senses to increase the levels of Eight Gates to obtain more strength and agility. Although time was short, the truth was that for battles below Legend, they rarely exceeded 10 minutes. Unless both sides were on the same level¡­ but those kinds of situations were really rare. High strength attacks consumed a lot of stamina. It wasn¡¯t that someone who had 18 Strength could maintain 18 Strength attacks. As stamina dropped, the strength of the attacks would reduce too. Of course, most of the time before one consumed all stamina, the battle would have already ended. ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ ¡­